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Article: Preservationists to Buy Brandy Station Acreage; Development Tract to Become Civil War Park
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- The Washington Post
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- September 29, 1995
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In a landmark victory for historic preservationists, Brandy
Station developer Lee C. Sammis has agreed to sell a 1,500-acre tract
near Culpeper, Va., to a group that plans to turn it into a park
commemorating the Civil War's largest cavalry engagement.
The Association for the Preservation of Civil War Sites will pay
$6 million, according to a statement yesterday by Sammis. The deal
represents one of the largest private acquisitions for historic
preservation in the country, said Michael Green, of the Brandy
Station Foundation.
The sale between once-bitter enemies ends a clash over a huge
commercial-industrial complex that Sammis proposed in 1988. The
complex would have been the biggest ...