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Gettysburg National of 2004. Supervisors declined to pay "I've never heard someone say, 'Gee, the majority of the $300,000 road I'm hungry -- why isn't there a Park Service to demolish improvements needed. hamburger restaurant right next to auto shop Davidson said the dealership on here?' " said Thomas Clemens, By CHARLES SCHILLINGER Expedition Drive is also larger, with president of Save Historic Antietam an additional 10 service bays in the Foundation. "People want to see, as Hanover, PA Evening Sun, mix. much as possible, Civil War sites that October 11, 2005 "We're very happy with how things look the way they did at the time it The has a turned out," he said. took place." special present in mind for Mother Nature took the blame for the That seemingly paradoxical theory battlefield visitors this new dealership location opening later was greeted with skepticism by a winter holiday season. than expected, Davidson said. group of investors considering one of The Ford dealership at 270 Biglerville Weather prevented the new location the more controversial projects under Road will be demolished before the from being completed in August. discussion: to build a casino near holidays arrive, park Superintendent Latschar said Davidson Motor Co. Gettysburg, Pa. John Latschar reported Thursday paid the park service penalty fees for "I guess that's the 'Don't build it, evening. a belated vacating of the property. they'll come,' theory, which goes very "As of this morning, we have the Those fees will be used to restore counter to what most people think," keys," Latschar said about the that part of the battlefield to its 1863 said John Brabender, a spokesman dealership. appearance. for the investors. He said the He added the milestone to a list of investors group, Chance Enterprises, land acquisitions that include the Preservationists Insist plans to release its own economic- Home Sweet Home Motel and the impact study in the next few weeks. National Tower. Battlefields Sell "It's going to show that there will be a The dealership sits within the Themselves positive impact in the region," he boundaries of the Gettysburg New Strategy in Development said. , on part of the The debate over battlefield Fight 11th Union Corps line on the first day preservation comes as federal By Fredrick Kunkle, Washington Post of the . spending on such efforts is expected Staff Writer The park service bought the property to increase: Congress has made Wednesday, October 5, 2005 for $1.24 million in August 2001, "historic battlefields" eligible for SHARPSBURG, Md. -- From the giving Davidson Motor Co. four years money from the six-year, $286 billion center of Antietam National to vacate. Though a little belated, the transportation bill enacted in August. Battlefield, a panorama of wheat business completed its move last In 1992, used an implicit fields and zigzagging rail fences week. interpretation of the law to use federal stretches for miles to the green And the transaction seemed to be funds for the purchase of farmland at slopes of South Mountain and mutually beneficial, according to Antietam Battlefield, said James beyond. dealership president Bob Davidson. Lighthizer, president of the Civil War But at the edges of this and other He was thrilled about his new location Preservation Trust. Since then, 11 Civil War sites lies the perennial line now open in the Adams County states, including Virginia, have used between the forces for economic Commerce Center at 55 Expedition federal transportation enhancement development and the desire to Trail. grants for battlefield preservation. preserve every acre of history. "It's a fabulous and absolutely At times, the federal government has Now preservationists have adopted a incredible location," he said. "And it's intervened directly to save historic new strategy, pointing to a recent convenient for our customers." sites: In 1988, President Ronald study that shows that efforts to save Still, it wasn't the first choice. The Reagan agreed to purchase land battlefields might actually boost the business brought plans for a new adjacent to Manassas National local economy more than location on Civil War Lane, near Battlefield Park rather than allow a development nibbling at the edges. Pike and Route 15, to shopping mall there. Mount Joy supervisors in the spring

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Lighthizer cited a recent report by his Lighthizer said. "You need no County residents oppose the casino organization that suggests that imagination to come out here and and 31 percent support it. A poll of preservation makes good economic envision what they saw," he said tourists found the percentages more sense. By restoring the battlefields to during a recent visit. lopsidedly against the plan. their original look, the sites become In Gettysburg, by contrast, about 60 "There are just some places we need more attractive to tourists. Their percent of the land within the 10,000- to have more reverence for," money is more valuable than most, acre federally drawn boundary is set Paddock said. because they demand few services in aside as battlefield. A proposal for a return. Putting new homes on the luxury hotel, spa and at least 2,500 Miniature donkey same land, on the other hand, would slots just outside that boundary has mean building more schools and met opposition from historians and dodges capture at hiring more police, Lighthizer said. preservationists far from the ground Spotsylvania battlefield The preservation trust commissioned hallowed by the largest land battle in By ELIZABETH PEZZULLO, the two-year study of 13 battlefields, North American history and President Fredricksburg Free-Lance Star, including Antietam, Gettysburg and 's address. October 13, 2005 three Virginia sites: Fredericksburg, When the investors announced their WAYWARD DONKEY is being a real Spotsylvania and New Market. casino plan in April, they said the horse's patooty as rangers from the Gettysburg draws the most visitors, Gettysburg Resort and Spa, at the National Park Service try to reunite with about 1.6 million a year. juncture of Routes 15 and 30, would her with her owner. Fredericksburg drew 373,465; generate $10 million a year for the Since May, Sidekick, as the brownish Antietam attracted 198,331. area. burro is known, has frolicked freely The survey, released in May, found "As you read the different arguments, within a remote section of the that Civil War tourists tend to be there are credible points being struck Spotsylvania Court House Battlefield. older, well-educated and affluent. At on both sides," said Steven Renner, The 18-month-old has been spotted Gettysburg, they spent $121 million president of the nonprofit Adams hoofing around the Bloody Angle area on restaurants, hotels and County Economic Development Corp. of the battlefield. entertainment. Antietam tourists He said the group has taken a wait- Since she went missing, Ranger spent $10.8 million, while visitors to and-see approach. Chuck Lochart has tried a variety of the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Brabender, the investors' spokesman, creative strategies to capture the National Military Park spent $20.5 said the venue would be at least 1 1/2 Equus asinus, as she's scientifically million. The study also found 2,653 miles from any historical site, would known. jobs connected to the Gettysburg site. avoid glitz, and could help an area "I try to talk to her" as he inches Fredericksburg supports 387 jobs, that he said has had declining closer, said Lochart, who's patrolled and Antietam has 309, the survey numbers of tourists relative to other Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania found. destinations for "several years." National Military Park for the past 17 But most important, preservationists Several historians, including years. He's been able to get no closer said, is the intangible value of history. Princeton University's James than about 25 yards from the "Sure, you can put up a plaque in a McPherson and Civil War author Jeff miniature donkey, who stands about fast-food parking lot that says on Shaara, have spoken against the 3 to 4 feet high. such-and-such a day, General Lee plan, and an opposition group has Sidekick's owner, Glenna Tompkins, met with another Confederate formed. Gov. Edward tried to lure her pet out of the woods general," said J.W. Howard, G. Rendell (D), in a recent with carrots. So far, no luck. superintendent of the Antietam appearance on Pennsylvania Cable "They can be pretty hard to catch," National Battlefield. Network, also expressed doubts. she said. Antietam, where 90 percent of the "I think he realizes that this site is Tompkins, who now lives in Louisa 3,300 acres that the federal political suicide," said Susan Star County, is eager to get her baby--and government considers the battlefield Paddock, who heads No Casino possibly a future grandbaby--back. is untouched, is among the best- Gettysburg. She said recent polls preserved sites in the country, show that 54 percent of Adams

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"We know she's OK," she said. "Our There was even someone who finishes serving a 20-year state concern is she could possibly be "dropped off a dog with a chain sentence for manufacturing pregnant." around its neck that had a 25-pound If Sidekick is expecting, she's likely to give birth in February or March, Tompkins said. Sidekick, a The burro--who gets her name from a miniature pony her family once owned--made donkey who her great escape in May by slipping escaped through an opening in a fence used to from her pen horses. Once free, she made a owner in beeline for the park. May, has She's been staying healthy by dining taken up on a buffet of grass and water from residence nearby rivers and streams. She's on the even been spotted absorbing history, Spotsylvania listening in as tour groups learn about Court House the Battle of Spotsylvania Court battlefield House in 1864. (Perhaps she's trying to shed that jackass moniker once and for all.) But Sidekick's freewheeling days may bag of food attached to it," Lochart methamphetamines, said Assistant be coming to an end as soon as this said. U.S. Attorney Will Traynor. weekend. That's when the Park The good news is that it's illegal for He began serving that sentence in Service hopes to capture her with a anyone to hunt within the parkland's January, according to the Georgia spring-loaded cage. boundaries. But critters don't follow Department of Corrections, and The daring donkey's foray into the the same rules. remains in custody at Wheeler forest is part of a larger Park Service "One time a white rabbit was left," Correctional Facility in Alamo. problem, Lochart said. In recent Lochart said. "A white rabbit, not Meanwhile his nephew and co- years, it has become a dumping even a brown one. You know how defendant in the case, Samuel E. ground for unwanted pets and a long a white rabbit is going to last out Clay III, 22, is out on bond and awaits sanctuary for animals squeezed from there?" a pretrial hearing. If Clay is ever their natural habitats. Chickamauga park convicted, U.S. District Judge Harold About a year ago, an emu showed up L. Murphy ruled, he will be ordered to at the park. A nearby resident, whose vandal sentenced to 21 help Crawford pay $11,579.19 in land was sold for a subdivision, was months in prison restitution to the National Park packing up his flightless birds and Lauren Gregory, Walker County, GA Service. one or possibly two got away, Lochart Messenger, October 11, 2005 Murphy praised Crawford during said. ROME, Ga. — Terry S. Crawford, the Friday’s hearing for his “admirable "Last fall, we saw it standing in the man who pleaded guilty in August to attitude” and his efforts to “get himself middle of the road," Lochart recalled. digging up artifacts at Chickamauga’s prosecuted and get this case over "We tried to dart it, but it ran." Civil War battlefield two years earlier, with.” It hasn't been seen since. was sentenced in federal court Friday The judge sentenced Crawford on the Other spottings include an albino to serve 21 months behind bars and low end of federal guidelines and deer, a white pig, goats and a family one year supervised release plus permitted him to seek treatment for of exotic chickens, as well as the help pay more than $11,000 in drug addiction while incarcerated, a usual assortment of puppies and restitution. problem Crawford said he felt kittens. Crawford, 46, will receive credit for contributed to the actions at the his federal prison sentence while he battlefield.

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“I didn’t think I was doing it to hurt the Millerstown Road, Reynolds Avenue, walls of the barn bridge to the first American people. But if I did, I’m Wadsworth Avenue, West floor. The remaining cement base of sorry,” he said when asked if he Confederate Avenue, and Wheatfield a non-period silo will be removed, as wanted to address the judge Friday. “I Road. will the cement floor in the stable want to get out and start a different For more information contact beneath the boards. life.” Gettysburg National Military Park at In addition, the funds will assist in the Crawford and Clay are both accused (717) 334-1124, or visit the park web replacement of deteriorated wood of removing and damaging bullets site at: floor boards on the threshing floor and other archaeological resources http://www.nps.gov/gett/home.htm and hay mow portion of the barn. within the historic Chickamauga and Representative Last year, the GBPA gave the barn a Chattanooga National Military Park in new wood-shingle roof and replaced Fort Oglethorpe — a site, Murphy Announces the three prominent cupolas along its pointed out, that had seen “one of the Pennsylvania Grant for peak. most important and far-reaching Readshaw teamed up with the battles of the Civil War.” Historic Daniel Lady GBPA’s Lady Farm effort after the Gettysburg Park’s Farm association assisted his Pennsylvania Oct. 24, 2005-CWi- State Rep. Harry Gettysburg Monuments Project to Winter Visiting Hours Readshaw, D-Allegheny, today clean and repair the more than 140 Begin November 1 announced that the Pennsylvania monuments and markers that honor Courtesy CWi Historical and Museum Commission the actions of Keystone State soldiers Beginning November 1, 2005, has approved a grant to assist with during the pivotal 1863 battle. Gettysburg National Military Park will the ongoing restoration of the barn on Shaara Award Winner change to its winter visiting hours, the historic Daniel Lady Farm on the staying open to the public from 6 a.m. . Releases Latest Book until 7 p.m. daily, the National Park The award of $27,217 through the By Tom Powers, Flint, MI Journal- Service has announced. The winter Keystone Historic Preservation Grant Review, October 10, 2005 visiting hours will continue through Program will be presented to the The Michael Shaara Award for March 31, 2006. From April 1 through Gettysburg Battlefield Preservation Excellence in Civil War Fiction honors October 31, the park will remain open Association, which is returning the novelists who seek fresh approaches from 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. daily. house and barn to their 1863 in writing about the War Between the The National Park Service will appearance. States. establish a grace enforcement period The two Lady Farm structures served Canadian author Marie Jakober won for the new winter visiting hours from as field hospitals during the battle and the award in 2003, for her novel, November 1 through December 31, still exhibit damage inflicted by Union "Only Call Us Faithful" about a female 2005, to acclimate the public to the artillery shells. Confederate Union spy in Richmond. Her newest change. Beginning January 1, 2006, commander Gen. Robert E. Lee Civil War book makes her an odds on fines would be enforced as specified visited the farm on the first evening of favorite to be the award's first two- for a Closed Area Violation ($75 fine). the three-day battle to confer with time winner. During the winter visiting hours, park- officers of his army’s right flank. Branden Rolfe, the Provost Marshal approved special events such as the Confederate regiments mustered just of Baltimore in 1862, is charged with annual Remembrance Illumination, east of the farmhouse to begin their making sure the city, in spite of its youth group campground operations, assault on the Union lines along many Southern sympathizers, and park sponsored public meetings Culp’s Hill. remains in the Union camp. would continue to be permitted. A portion of the huge post-battle Rolfe fights his war with misfits and Certain park avenues will continue to field hospital was rejects from the Army of the Potomac be accessible 24 hours/day for located on the northern end of the and fully realizes there is, "" no future vehicular through-travel only: Buford 142-acre farm. in (the provost department) for the Avenue, Doubleday Avenue, Granite Readshaw said the grant will be used ambitious and no glory for the proud." Schoolhouse Road, Howard Avenue, to repoint the barn foundation and He spends his days arresting deserters, trailing Confederate spies

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New reports say yes. It may even relatively intact, unlike many other lifestyle, and eventually they will have more. Civil War battlefields where modern follow. Quoted in the Washington Post this development patterns have obscured Thankfully, the report is realistic month, Jim Lighthizer, president of the experience." about development: "Ensuring that the Civil War Preservation Trust, You can say that much of this visitors have an authentic and unique pointed to a report that indicates "integrity" is accidental integrity experience requires conserving the battlefields can be just as stimulating, because we're further from the cities integrity of the heritage area's cultural economically speaking, as houses and have never had to withstand the landscape to the greatest degree and shopping centers. bombardment of sprawl as, say possible while still accommodating All three Tri-State jurisdictions are Manassas has had to cope with. But regional growth." wrestling with Civil War-related issues the point remains, we still have a Any viable stab at preservation will at the moment. Outside of chance to preserve, and profit from, require compromise, and a respect Shepherdstown, W.Va., there's a our open fields. for private property. We've learned push for new National Park land on In this respect, it can be argued that that those who advocate zero-growth the same land where a housing the county's farmers contribute more are doomed to fail, and stir up a lot of development has also been to the local economy than the sum anger in the process. proposed. In Gettysburg, Pa., there's value of their farm products. This puts But the underlying message of the a proposal for a casino to be situated compensation for farmland report - our open lands are valuable a mere minie-ball's shot from the preservation in a new light, and and we need to think before we historic battlefield. In Hagerstown, should make local governments more develop, not develop before we think. there's once again talk of a Civil War willing to spend more on Clearly from the comprehensive museum downtown, to try to draw compensation for farmers. scope of the report itself (this is not some of the thousands of visitors to The Heart of the Civil War study your father's consultant study) a Antietam into the city. projects that if the heritage area tremendous amount of thought and And now, to up the ante, comes the comes to pass, Washington, effort is going into the Civil War proposal to elevate several towns - Frederick and Carroll counties would heritage area. And apparently there's including Hagerstown, Boonsboro benefit to the tune of 65,000 new money to back it up. and Williamsport - to the status of a visitors and $9 million in new It is gratifying that Washington "Heart of the Civil War Heritage revenues. If the men and women who County has been chosen as one of Area." If all goes as proposed, the have struggled mightily to till the the heritage-area's keystones. But towns would become eligible for state fields shun development have directly Hagerstown has often been slow to grants, loans and tax credits to contributed to our "heritage" status, come to the party, spending encourage more tourist-friendly then it seems to me a share of agonizing amounts of time inspecting confines featuring more restaurants, tourism-generated revenues should the gift-horse's maw. It should be the shops and showier streetscapes. go back to the farmers for duty of every member of influence in Tying in with Lightizer's point, our preservation. the community to read the report and area is a candidate for such largesse The report even notes that open become involved, before this train of because it has remained rural. And lands are becoming more important in rural celebration leaves for some rural has value. recruitment of companies, for which other station. Specifically, the Heart of the Civil War quality of life is becoming an ever Membership News report states, "this region along the higher priority. Open farmland as an The Board of Directors of the border between North and South economic development tool may Baltimore Civil War Roundtable is possesses a degree of landscape seem paradoxical, but it makes sense recommending to the membership a integrity that is exceptional among in a county where plenty of people dues increase. A motion to that effect Civil War sites around the country. find green fields, reasonable housing will be introduced and discussed at The visitor who wants to understand costs and fresh air a salve worthy of a the November meeting. The final what it was like when the armies two-hour commute every day. motion will be voted on at the faced each other can do so here in a Businesses will realize that December meeting. setting that remains largely rural and employees put a premium on this

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