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Article: Battlefield grounds eyed by developers: a town could be built on land key to the battle of Chancellorsville. (Historic Preservation).
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- National Parks
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- November 1, 2002
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CHANCELLORSVILLE, VA. -- The second battle of Chancellorsville has begun.
Nearly 240 years after the first battle, a coalition of preservation groups and citizens is fighting to protect Chancellorsville Battlefield from a proposed 2,350-house residential and commercial development on 788 acres of farmland adjacent to the park's boundary.
Critics say the development would essentially drop a 10,000-person city at the site of the first day of fighting for one of the Civil War's legendary battles.
"The battlefield's history demands that it become a national park, not an office park," said Joy Oakes, NPCA's Mid-Atlantic regional director.
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