Battlefields
Posted: Mar 21st 2005, 8:30 pm
Interesting thing I stumbled across.
As housing prices are becoming absolutely insane here in the US (worse in Spain) land for new homes is coming a premium. As land is gobbled up many developers are attempting to build on lands where Civil War battles were fought.
Last I heard some developer in South Carolina is trying to put a resort where the 54th Massachusetts (as depicted in the awesome movie Glory) charged a Confederate fort. The good folks at the Civil War Preservation Trust (http://www.civilwar.org/) are trying to buy up and preserve land where these battles were fought.
Question: For those of you back east (Megs in Virginia?) are you hearing about this issue?
Europeans: How has your respective countries dealt with this issue? Considering how old Europe is I wouldn't expect that every battlefield is preserved. How have governments decided to perserve which pieces of land and why?
-LanceMan
As housing prices are becoming absolutely insane here in the US (worse in Spain) land for new homes is coming a premium. As land is gobbled up many developers are attempting to build on lands where Civil War battles were fought.
Last I heard some developer in South Carolina is trying to put a resort where the 54th Massachusetts (as depicted in the awesome movie Glory) charged a Confederate fort. The good folks at the Civil War Preservation Trust (http://www.civilwar.org/) are trying to buy up and preserve land where these battles were fought.
Question: For those of you back east (Megs in Virginia?) are you hearing about this issue?
Europeans: How has your respective countries dealt with this issue? Considering how old Europe is I wouldn't expect that every battlefield is preserved. How have governments decided to perserve which pieces of land and why?
-LanceMan