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Article: Brandy Station Battle Has Familiar Theme: Horsepower

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Preservationists say they will fight a plan to build a Formula One auto racetrack at the site of the largest cavalry clash of the Civil War, the Brandy Station battlefield in Culpeper County, Va.

Sources close to the negotiations said that Irvine, Calif.-based developer Lee C. Sammis is considering selling part of his 1,445- acre property on the battlefield to a racetrack developer. Sammis had planned to build an office park as part of his Elkwood Downs project until he filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in June.

The sources said that Benton Ventures of Bethesda presented a plan to build the track at a closed executive session of the county Planning Commission on Wednesday. The company's ...

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