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Article: Unison Sets Its Sights on The Past; Landmark Status Sought for Area
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- The Washington Post
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- October 11, 2009
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In the quiet countryside of western Loudoun County lies one of
the state's most well-preserved Civil War battlefields. The
untouched landscape in Unison looks much as it did when Federal and
Confederate troops clashed there in fall 1862.
And some Unison residents want to keep it that way.
The Unison Preservation Society is in the process of nominating
its proposed 8,000-acre Unison Battlefield Historic District for a
spot on the Virginia Landmarks Register. The state designation would
make the district eligible for a listing in the National Register of
Historic Places.
State and federal historic designations could help prevent
development in Unison, which was the site of a proposed ...