From the American Battlefield Trust:
Many of our nation’s still-unprotected hallowed grounds are facing an alarming new generation of aggressive threats. Big-tech companies with billions to spend are racing to build huge warehouse-style data centers and distribution facilities in places where young men fought and died for country and for freedom.
We receive solicitations asking if we’ll sell the lands we’ve purchased and protected! Can you believe their gall?
My response to any developer who might write to me to try to convince me that I should give up and let them destroy our history:
No. Not now ... not ever ... not for any amount of money ... and I’m backed up by an army of nearly 45,000 Americans who stand with me and will do whatever it takes to preserve irreplaceable history!
Click here to see the solicitations that come across my desk.
But I can’t promise other landowners will do the same. Not with all-cash offers — many coming in well above appraised value — pouring in almost every day! If we want to protect battlefield lands from unrelenting developers, we must act immediately ... and I need your help!
Right now, we have the opportunity to purchase and permanently protect 52 acres of prime Virginia Civil War battlefield land: in Manassas, Reams Station, and Cumberland Church (Farmville).
The total transaction value is just over a million dollars, but if we can raise just $145,000 in the next 30 days, we can multiply your impact by $7- to-$1. With your help, we’ll purchase all three parcels, and keep them out of the hands of developers forever!
We cannot let the opportunity to preserve these 52 acres of prime Virginia Civil War battlefield land pass us by. Please join us in helping to preserve battlefield land at Manassas, Reams Station and Cumberland Church by making a gift today.
Thank you for everything you do to support battlefield preservation.
'Til the battle is won,
David Duncan, President
American Battlefield Trust