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Article: For Disney, Civil War battle
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- May 12, 1994
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WASHINGTON -- Chroniclers of America's past want to make the Walt
Disney Co. rethink its future.
In the latest twist of Disney's roller-coaster drive to build a
$650 million theme park in rural Virginia, some of the nation's most
prominent historians denounced the project yesterday as an assault on
some of the country's most hallowed ground.
Disney's America, a 100-acre historical theme park, is scheduled
to open in 1998 in tiny Haymarket, Va., a one-stoplight town in a
region where Thomas Jefferson lived, George Washington surveyed and
two major Civil War battles were waged at Manassas.
"The very idea of bulldozing the land of Lee, Stonewall Jackson,
Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe, ...