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The American Battlefield Trust and its partners have acquired and preserved 2,243 acres (9.08 km 2) of the battlefield in more than a dozen transactions since 2001. Much of this land is now owned by the Trevilian Station Battlefield Foundation, which has developed an online driving tour that begins at the Louisa County Courthouse. [30]
CWPT President Jim Lighthizer at Slaughter Pen Farm. In March 2006, the Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT) - now the Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust) - announced the beginning of a $12 million national campaign to preserve the historic Slaughter Pen Farm, a key part of the Fredericksburg battlefield, Virginia, United States.
[2] [3] It is the first state park in Culpeper County and the northern Virginia Piedmont region. The park features several disconnected battlefields where major engagements took place during the American Civil War , with primary focus on the Cedar Mountain battlefield , just south of Culpeper, and Brandy Station Battlefield , located northeast ...
On May 31, 2018, the Trust announced that with the acquisition of 13 acres (5.3 ha) at the Cedar Creek battlefield in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, it had reached the milestone of 50,000 acres (200 km 2) of battlefield land acquired and preserved. Since 1987, the Trust and its federal, state, and local partners have preserved land in 25 ...
In 2014, the American Battlefield Trust, formerly known as The Civil War Trust, acquired and preserved a 654-acre farm at the Jericho Mills part of the North Anna battlefield. [41] As of November 2021, the Trust and its partners have acquired and preserved a total of 876 acres (3.55 km 2) of the battlefield in four acquisitions since 2012. [42]
In 2008, the Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust) placed the Cold Harbor battlefield on its Ten Most Endangered Battlefields list. Development pressure in the Richmond area was so great that only about 300 acres (1.2 km 2 ) of what was once at least a 7,500-acre (30 km 2 ) battlefield are currently preserved as part of ...
The American Battlefield Trust and its partners have acquired and preserved 869 acres (3.52 km 2) of the battlefield through November 2021. [8] It is located along the Rappahannock River at Remington, Va., and features visible earthworks as well as bridge and mill ruins. [9]
The Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust) and its partners have acquired and preserved 583 acres (2.36 km 2) of the battlefield as of 2019. [24] The battlefield is in a good state of preservation, with some of the wartime buildings still standing.