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Article: Peaceful Pact Saves Battle Site; Civil War Trust Joins With Couple to Buy Historic Farm in Shenandoah Valley
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- The Washington Post
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- August 13, 2000
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The Civil War Preservation Trust already was deeply in debt for
land purchases and President Jim Lighthizer gloomily predicted a
historically important Virginia farm would be lost to developers at
auction. Irvin Hess and his wife, Nancy, wanted the property to
preserve it but were sure they would easily be outbid.
Days before the sale, the two parties found each other through
historian John Heatwole, who had made a public appeal on his
Harrisonburg radio show for the preservation of the Widow Pence farm.
He already knew of the trust and when he heard about the Hesses
interest, he put them together. An agreement was struck and
Lighthizer, representing both parties, outbid a developer who ...