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Article: The last valley campaign: as development marches across Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, residents, historians, and preservationists are mounting a defense of Civil War battlefields. (includes related article on the successful effort to preserve battlefield areas surrounding New Market, Virginia) (Cover Story)
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- National Parks
- Article date:
- November 1, 1993
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1993 National Parks Conservation Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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STANDING ON THE BRIDGE over Interstate 81 at the New Market battlefield, it's hard to imagine that North and South ever fought bitterly in the Shenandoah Valley. The steady drone of tractor trailers has long since replaced the sputter of muskets and the flash and roar of cannon, and the uninterrupted stream of commerce and the passage of time have muted the partisan feelings that set these regions against each other.
Now, residential, industrial and commercial development in the valley--nurtured by major thoroughfares such as I-81--threatens to obscure the tangible evidence of the conflict entirely. There is a real danger that if we don't act soon, the forests ...