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Article: Auto Racetrack Wins Brandy Station Battle; Culpeper Co. Approves Use of Civil War Site
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- The Washington Post
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- February 2, 1994
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The Culpeper County Board of Supervisors approved a developer's
plan last night to build a $10 million "world-class" auto racetrack
on land where part of the Civil War's largest cavalry conflict
played out.
The action drew prompt condemnation from a member of a Civil War
preservation group, who said it will mean destruction of the Brandy
Station Battlefield, where 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers
clashed in an indecisive contest on June 9, 1863.
But the arguments made to the supervisors at a 5 1/2-hour
hearing last month centered on noise and traffic vs. economic
development.
The 526-acre project was opposed overwhelmingly by speakers at
the hearing, who argued that the track would ...