The Civil War Trust and the Silver Cos., a Fredericksburg developer, have agreed to save a crucial part of the Chancellorsville battlefield. Land across which Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson and his men advanced against surprised Union troops on May 2, 1863, will be set aside as Silver builds a 218-house subdivision on its 1,152-acre Binns Tract in Spotsylvania County. The subdivision off State Route 3 would be named Legends of Chancellorsville. The developer has promised to convey about 479 acres of its property to preservationists if the Spotsylvania Board of Supervisors rezones the tract to allow the luxury, single-family-home project. The rezoning would increase residential density on land to be developed. That donation would be one of the largest of battlefield lands made in the Fredericksburg area, said Chris Hornung, Silver’s vice president for planning and engineering. ... READ MORE: freelancestar/2014-07-26/articles/41556/deal-will-save-civil-war-land/
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 21:07:02 +0000
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