Volunteers Will Clean Up Civil War Sites
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A Civil War preservation group plans to work
in states North and South this month sprucing up some historical
sites, including six in Arkansas.
On March 27th, volunteers with the Washington, D-C-based Civil
War Preservation Trust will blaze trails, rake leaves and tidy up
as part of the eighth annual Park Day, just in time for tourist
season.
The group says the sites are often victims of their own
popularity as time and use by tourists wear on the land.
Among the sites volunteers are scheduled to clean is Prairie
Grove Battlefield Historic State Park. That park is slated for the
most work, where workers will build a new trail along the
battleground, connecting an older part of the park with some newly
acquired land.
Other Arkansas parks slated for work are: The Arkansas Post
National Memorial in Gillett, Camp Nelson Confederate Cemetery in
Austin, Camp White Sulphur Springs Confederate Cemetery and Old
Washington Historic State Park -- the site of Arkansas` Confederate
capital.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
