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County to keep Chancellorsville battlefield intact
Washington Times ^ | Thursday, March 27, 2003 | By Tim Lemke

Posted on 03/27/2003 4:50:08 AM PST by JohnHuang2

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:02:02 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Spotsylvania County supervisors early yesterday morning overwhelmingly rejected plans to build a massive development on the site of the Chancellorsville Civil War battlefield.

After nearly nine hours of discussion and public comment, the board voted 6-0, with one abstention, against zoning changes that would allow for the development of the Town of Chancellorsville, a complex with about 2,000 homes and 2.2 million square feet of retail, office and hotel space.


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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: battlefields; chancellorsville; cwpreservationtrust; dixie; history; nationaltrust; preservation; robertelee; spotsylvania; stonewalljackson
Thursday, March 27, 2003

Quote of the Day by jwalsh07

1 posted on 03/27/2003 4:50:08 AM PST by JohnHuang2
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To: JohnHuang2
Wonderful news !! We are going there in May. Thank you so much for the information.
2 posted on 03/27/2003 5:18:17 AM PST by let us cross over the river
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To: JohnHuang2
BTTT. Good news for a change.
3 posted on 03/27/2003 10:16:51 AM PST by uncitizen (hostile freepers need not reply)
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