620,000 tree plantings planned by Civil War anniversary
CULPEPER — The Journey Through Hallowed Ground wants to lay down roots — lots of them — in its remembrance of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
Starting next year through 2015, the Waterford-based history organization will set out to plant 620,000 trees — about one for each soldier who died in the war — along the 180-mile route from Monticello to Gettysburg, Pa.
The National Heritage Area and national scenic byway on which JTHG focuses its preservation efforts has the country’s largest concentration of Civil War battlefields.
A Culpeper Town Council committee endorsed the tree-planting plan at a meeting last week, and the green idea also previously gained support from the boards of supervisors in Culpeper, Fauquier, Albemarle and Spotsylvania counties....
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Starting next year through 2015, the Waterford-based history organization will set out to plant 620,000 trees — about one for each soldier who died in the war — along the 180-mile route from Monticello to Gettysburg, Pa.
The National Heritage Area and national scenic byway on which JTHG focuses its preservation efforts has the country’s largest concentration of Civil War battlefields.
A Culpeper Town Council committee endorsed the tree-planting plan at a meeting last week, and the green idea also previously gained support from the boards of supervisors in Culpeper, Fauquier, Albemarle and Spotsylvania counties....