Appomattox museum project to break ground this month
The Museum of the Confederacy has unveiled drawings of its planned museum in Appomattox and announced plans for a Sept. 23 groundbreaking at the site after raising $6 million toward the $7.5 million project.
Construction is expected to end by spring 2012 on the 11,700-square-foot museum near the intersection of Virginia 24 and U.S. 460, housing Civil War artifacts where they were made famous.
“There’s nowhere better to do it than Appomattox,” said S. Waite Rawls III, CEO and president of the Museum of the Confederacy. “The very word ‘Appomattox’ carries so much meaning in history.”...
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Construction is expected to end by spring 2012 on the 11,700-square-foot museum near the intersection of Virginia 24 and U.S. 460, housing Civil War artifacts where they were made famous.
“There’s nowhere better to do it than Appomattox,” said S. Waite Rawls III, CEO and president of the Museum of the Confederacy. “The very word ‘Appomattox’ carries so much meaning in history.”...