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Article: Officials Clash Over Proposed Manassas Mall
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- The Washington Post
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- March 4, 1988
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The war of words over a proposal to build a large shopping mall
next to a Civil War battlefield north of Manassas is getting less
civil by the moment, with the latest volley fired in the direction of
the National Park Service by the chairman of the Prince William Board
of County Supervisors.
In a pointed letter sent recently to Park Service Director
William Penn Mott Jr., who is opposed to having a Tysons Corner-sized
mall adjacent to the Manassas National Battlefield, Prince William
board Chairman Kathleen K. Seefeldt (D-Occoquan) accused Mott of
meddling in a local government issue.
"If the National Park Service wishes to protect the area around
the battlefield, it should have acquired ...