This 11-acre battlefield parcel is mere steps from sites like Reynolds Woods, Willoughby’s Run, Lee’s Headquarters, and the Seminary.
It’s right in the heart of the action!
Yet this remarkable tract currently has NO protections of any kind. None at all. Anyone could snatch it up now and build several single-family homes.
But that won’t happen if we get it first. For the last few months, we’ve been working furiously to reach a deal with the family that has owned the land for generations. At last, they’ve signed!
Gettysburg holds a unique place in American history.
Those three days of fighting changed the course of the war, which means they changed the course of our nation’s history. We all walk in the shadows of the brave men who served there.
Thanks to generous patriots like you, we’ve preserved more than 1,277 acres at Gettysburg, and we’re not done yet.
Saving these 11 acres now will add another piece to the contiguous area that we’ve preserved together and can one day expand the borders of National Park Service land.
It will also protect the land from growing development threats. Gettysburg was a quiet and mostly rural area at the time of the battle and even a century later when President Eisenhower retired here in the 1960s, but it’s not so quiet and rural now.
Land prices are rising in Gettysburg, and commercial and residential development continues to encroach on the remaining unprotected battlefield land.
We must continue to act urgently to save what we can, and I’m counting on you!
Today, I have high hopes we can raise the $315,000 we need to get this deal done.
Together, we can preserve this battlefield land, so central to the action on the first day of fighting at Gettysburg and preserve it forever! But only if we have your help.
Thank you in advance, on behalf of those who hallowed this ground, as well as for those future generations who will get to experience it because of you.
‘Til the battle is won,
David N. Duncan
President
American Battlefield Trust
P.S. The same groves of trees that sheltered troops as the fighting raged near Seminary Ridge on the first day of Gettysburg is the hallowed ground we seek to save now – before it’s developed. Will you please make your gift now to save this national treasure? Your gift will be matched $1.63-to-$1 when you do.