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Conservation efforts add luster to Culpeper County's scenic landscape Date published: 7/26/2010
By CLINT SCHEMMER Property owners and preservationists are stringing together two new gems on the necklace that is Culpeper County's Brandy Station battlefield. Soon, the only thing that will be left to do is pay for the jeweler's setting. The two conservation easements on the sprawling battleground--site of the world's largest cavalry engagement--add 782 acres to the 1,000 acres preserved there since 1987. "It's quite extraordinary. This helps us in a very dramatic way to better interpret the battlefield," historian Clark B. Hall said of the landowners' donations of development rights for the two tracts. The deals, arranged by Together, they form the biggest preservation victory at Brandy Station in years. The 349-acre northern tract, which includes nearly a mile of Hazel River frontage, is where Union Brig. Gen. John Buford's cavalry fought Confederate troopers led by W.H.F. "Rooney" Lee, Robert E. Lee's middle son. Its easement was donated by Beauregard Farms LP. The southern tract, comprising 433 acres southwest of Culpeper Regional Airport, includes land where Union Col. Thomas Devin's Federal cavalry repeatedly clashed with Confederates led by Gen. Wade Hampton. Its easement was donated by brothers Chuck and Pete Gyory. Hall and Kathleen Kilpatrick, director of the Department of Historic Resources, praised the landowners for their gifts to the state. "This new opportunity would add enormously to the great conservation and battlefield-preservation successes the commonwealth has recently experienced," Kilpatrick said. "These are just phenomenal properties. To have this much land in one area placed voluntarily under easement is really heartening." Not counting the newest Brandy Station deal, Kilpatrick said, owners have recently donated more than 1,500 acres in Culpeper County and around the Rappahannock Station battlefield in western Fauquier. When a landowner donates an easement, he retains his property but forfeits development rights in return for tax credits. Future owners are bound by the rules.
Date published: 7/26/2010
Come on if it wasn't for those boys and men you would not be able to voice your opinion here. Senseless no not senseless but a fight for freedom. So get over it already. Their memory should be preserved.
so that the senseless killing of American Boys and Men will be remembered. Just in case anyone wants to start another insurrection.....
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