Posts belonging to Category 'Preservation'
November 20, 2009 | Posted by javal
It’s History In The Re-Making.
Renovations are now underway on the last remaining piece of the old Confederate powderworks, the 150-foot tall chimney located on the Augusta Canal.
Built in 1861, the Civil War relic is in need of a major facelift, and a special team of “restorers” are on site to make it right.
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November 18, 2009 | Posted by javal
The ongoing fight over the new Walmart Supercenter in Orange County, not far from the Wilderness battlefield, highlights a big problem in Virginia. History and business bumping into each other.
NBC29’s Stacia Harris has this look at what communities are doing to grow their future without losing their past.
In the Shenandoah Valley, the town of New [...]
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November 17, 2009 | Posted by javal
The Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT), America’s largest nonprofit battlefield preservation group, has announced the beginning of a $2.125 million national campaign to preserve one of the most historically significant unprotected landscapes of the entire Civil War. The 85-acre property, known locally as the Wagner Tract, was the scene of bloody struggle during the battle [...]
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November 16, 2009 | Posted by javal
After losing an initial bid to stop retail giant Walmart from building a store near the Wilderness Civil War battlefield, preservation groups and those opposing the project must take a critical look at themselves if they hope to achieve their mission, one official says.
Speaking to Friends of Wilderness Battlefield on Saturday during the group’s annual [...]
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November 16, 2009 | Posted by javal
Philip Madre knows a thing or two about disappointment.
So when he and three other volunteer divers found what they thought was the CSS Appomattox buried deep in the mud of the Pasquotank River, the Elizabeth City native approached the remains of the Confederate gunboat with the skepticism of a man who had thought he’d found [...]
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November 16, 2009 | Posted by javal
One half mile to the east of Colonial Williamsburg is a killing field. On May 5, 1862, thousands of Americans shot, stabbed and killed one another in a driving rainstorm that left 3,843 soldiers dead, dying and bleeding. This same property — the site of the Battle of Williamsburg — has been designated by the [...]
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November 13, 2009 | Posted by javal
“I’ve been by here hundreds of times, and I never knew about this.”
That sentence, or some variation, was repeated Wednesday by many of those who gathered at a Civil War battle site a few miles north of Joplin.
A ceremony was held at the location – near the intersection of Peace Church and Fountain roads – [...]
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by javal
As work on the state’s first commercial wind farm enters a winter lull in Highland County, so do the regulatory proceedings related to the most recent complaint against the project.
A hearing before the State Corporation Commission, which would have examined the wind farm’s encroachment on a nearby Civil War battlefield, has been postponed indefinitely.
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by javal
Right now it’s a site with old buildings and brush. But the future could mean tourists and park benches for the Jasper County, Missouri site of a Civil War battle.
Eighteen soldiers, including fifteen black soldiers, were killed by southern sympathizers in a massacre on May 18, 1863.
The next day the town of Sherwood, Missouri was [...]
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November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal
A battle is brewing at the Gettysburg Military Park over money donated to repair more than 100 monuments.
The Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association raised over $1 million 10 years ago, which was enough to repair all 140 Pennsylvania monuments.
The group said that half of the monuments are still missing pieces. The Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Association raised over [...]
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