Residents of Orange and Spotsylvania Counties joined with the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Friends of Wilderness Battlefield today in filing a legal challenge against a proposed big-box development on the Wilderness Battlefield.
The huge 240,000-square foot commercial development would harm the historic battlefield and encroach upon the Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park.
“A nationally significant and highly vulnerable historic site is at great risk,” noted Zann Nelson, president of Friends of Wilderness Battlefield.
“The local government’s approval of this special use permit poses real and irreversible threats to the historic place. The Wal-Mart project would irrevocably harm the battlefield and seriously undermine the visitor’s experience of the National Park.” Learn more
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