Virginia Civil War Battlefields Gaining Protection


	Virginia Civil War Battlefields Gaining Protection

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7-3-2008 12:08 AM

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RICHMOND | Preservationists are expected to announce Tuesday a state and federal initiative to protect more land in the Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, where nearly a third of roughly 50,000 acres of Civil War battlefields are unprotected.
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The effort follows the recent announcement by the National Trust for Historic Preservation that a quarry expansion threatens the Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Park battlefield, which is in the valley.
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<A href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/themes/?Theme=Kathleen+Kilpatrick" title="Kathleen Kilpatrick">Kathleen S. Kilpatrick</A>, director of Virginia's Department of Historic Resources, said that the announcement will be made at a news conference in Middletown and that the initiative involve a state-federal partnership to preserve additional acres within the core area of the battlefield.
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"Broadly speaking, we see any battlefield that is not protected as threatened," she said.
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Miss Kilpatrick declined to give further details until the formal announcement, sponsored by the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation.
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