Volunteers Will Clean Up Civil War Sites

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