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 18, 2009 | Posted by javal
The Petersburg National Battlefield recently opened a major new addition that will significantly expand the ability to tell the story of one of the pivotal battles during the Civil War.
Last month, the National Park Service unveiled a new $3 million visitor contact station at the Five Forks Battlefield. The 2,400-square-foot center offers much more exhibit [...]
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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
It is the seminal event in U.S. History and 150 years later how to commemorate the American Civil War in 2011 still creates a stir.
Virginia is a little bit ahead of other states in their plans for commemorating the war, but there is a conscious effort not to make the same mistakes as 1961, the [...]
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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
Out in the countryside of Orange County, historians are working to breathe new life into an old battle.
When complete, their efforts should help the public appreciate one of the Civil War’s least-known campaigns, called Mine Run, after the creek of the same name off State Route 20.
Mine Run may be as notable for what didn’t [...]
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November 13, 2009 | Posted by javal
Visitors may see inside of a Civil War gunpowder magazine when the Jefferson Parish Historical Commission hosts its third annual Camp Parapet Day on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the the end of Arlington Street, to the east of Causeway Boulevard near River Road in Old Jefferson.
The event is free and open [...]
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November 12, 2009 | Posted by javal
Members of the Manassas City Council like the idea of commemorating the 150th anniversary of the First Battle of Manassas so much that they’re ready to give up $100,000 to make it happen in 2011.
The battle, fought on July 21, 1861, was the first major engagement of the Civil War.
Creston M. Owen, chairman of the [...]
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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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