Orange supervisors decide in Wal-Mart’s favor
Published: April 17, 2009
Wal-Mart has won a battle in its bid to build a Supercenter near a Civil War battlefield in Virginia.
In Orange County, the Board of Supervisors rejected a coalition’s request to join a planning study for an area near the Wilderness battlefield.
A majority of the five supervisors said they considered the offer an attempt to delay or derail the store. They relayed their sentiments in a letter this week to Civil War preservationists.
Wal-Mart’s plans have angered historians, who contend the store will be too close to a significant battleground.
The company just recently submitted revised plans for the store. Planners have yet to vote on the proposal.
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Too late now but remember this the next time any of them come up for re-election. VOTE ‘EM OUT!
I always remember what a local historian said about the fallen on a Civil War Battlefield. “Bury them where they fell”. And you know every single casualty was not dug up and reburied in a cemetery. As far as I’m concerned every battlefield is a cemetery. So Orange, build your big box on our fallen heros. Money always comes before honor.
See, Culpeper, you’re not the only ones who have Board problems! A large number of us do not want a WalMart and especially where it will pollute (noise, traffic, smells, etc.) the environment and open the doors for other box-store destruction of trees, land and additional pollution. Thank you Board for ignoring us yet again.
Looks like we will be shopping less in Fredericksburg in the future. Route 3 is already extremely congested between LOW and Fredericksburg. Building the Walmart on hallowed ground will only increase traffic. Oh, well, there is still Charlottesville.
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