Help Raise $10,000 for Battlefield Preservation

This year Central Virginia Battlefields Trust is partnering with Downtown Greens, a Fredericksburg non-profit whose mission is to foster community involvement and growth by protecting and nurturing urban greenspace through collaborative environmental stewardship and experiential education, on preserving 56-acres of farmland inside the Battlefield Industrial Park in the City of Fredericksburg. This property contains living wetlands, mature trees, and nearly 20 acres of the last working agricultural space in the city.

Elements of the Union VI Corps marched across, and attacked from, this land during the Battle of Second Fredericksburg, as part of the Chancellorsville Campaign on May 3, 1863. CVBT is contributing $10,000 to assist Downtown Greens with the purchase of the property and will be providing interpretive waysides telling the story of the battle and the troops who marched across this land. Will you help us raise $10,000 this Giving Tuesday to secure this important land?

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