Kudos to Congress. It is about time.
Anita
> Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:06:23 -0400
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> Subject: Congress approves major Va. heritage area
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> Wonderful news in the endless, and usually losing, battle to protect rural
> land and historic (and historical) landscapes from the insatiable maw of
> "development."
>
> --Jurretta Heckscher
>
> Congress Makes Long Stretch Between Va., Pa., a 'Heritage Area'
> By Sandhya Somashekhar
> Washington Post Staff Writer
> Wednesday, April 30, 2008; 1:08 PM
>
> Congress voted yesterday to designate a 175-mile corridor stretching from
> Monticello to Gettysburg -- an area dubbed by historians as the Journey
> Through Hallowed Ground -- as a national heritage area.
>
> The region encompasses presidential homes, Civil War battlefields and other
> historical sites along routes 15 and 231 in Virginia, Maryland and
> Pennsylvania. Local activists and legislative leaders for three years have
> been seeking the designation, which they hope will boost tourism and bring
> in federal grants.
>
> "By designating this corridor as a national heritage area, the route will be
> celebrated, honored and shared with our children, grandchildren and
> generations to come," Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.), one of the main proponents
> of the legislation, said in a statement.
>
> The House of Representatives voted 291 to 117 last night to grant the
> designation; it passed the Senate earlier this month. If signed by President
> Bush, the Journey Through Hallowed Ground will become the nation's 38th
> national heritage area.
>
> For more information, go tohttp://www.hallowedground.org/content/view/396/57.
>
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