Budget Will Create New Culpeper Battlefields State Park

CULPEPER, Va. (AP) — The Virginia Normal Meeting’s just lately accredited price range appropriates cash to create a brand new state park in Culpeper County that would come with two Civil Warfare battlefields.

The spending plan despatched to Gov. Glenn Youngkin earlier this week would create a 1,700-acre park targeted on Culpeper County’s Brandy Station and Cedar Mountain battlefields, which have been preserved by the American Battlefield Belief, the Star-Exponent reported.

Proponents say Culpeper’s location between Manassas Nationwide Battlefield Park and the Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania Nationwide Army Park will increase visitation. Most of the websites the Culpeper Battlefields State Park will embody are already open to the general public, below the stewardship of the battlefield belief or different organizations.

“As awe-inspiring as these preserved lands are, we got here to comprehend the wherewithal and advertising muscle of the Virginia State Park System was wanted to make the battlefields into a real heritage tourism vacation spot and financial engine for the neighborhood,” Jim Campi, the battlefield belief’s chief coverage and communications officer, informed the newspaper.

The price range is awaiting motion from Youngkin, who has indicated his help for the park, in keeping with the newspaper.

Underneath the price range language, the park could be created by July 1, 2024.

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