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    Acres


    67 ALABAMA
    268 ARKANSAS
    607.25 GEORGIA
    600 KANSAS
    1173.54 KENTUCKY
    443 LOUISIANA
    863 MARYLAND
    3642.03 MISSISSIPPI
    85.6 MISSOURI
    2.13 NEW MEXICO
    152.37 NORTH CAROLINA
    138 OHIO
    184 OKLAHOMA
    184.16 PENNSYLVANIA
    0.23 SOUTH CAROLINA
    634.8 TENNESSEE
    3 TEXAS
    6150.35 VIRGINIA
    662.5 WEST VIRGINIA



    The list is the number of acres saved per state through 2003 by the CWPT. Thanks to those who contribute
    Mike "Dusty" Chapman

    Member: CWT, CVBT, NTHP, MOC, KBA, Stonewall Jackson House, Mosby Heritage Foundation

    "I would have posted this on the preservation folder, but nobody reads that!" - Christopher Daley

    The AC was not started with the beginner in mind. - Jim Kindred

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    Re: Blowing CWPT's horn for them

    Originally posted by dusty27
    Acres


    67 ALABAMA
    268 ARKANSAS
    607.25 GEORGIA
    600 KANSAS
    1173.54 KENTUCKY
    443 LOUISIANA
    863 MARYLAND
    3642.03 MISSISSIPPI
    85.6 MISSOURI
    2.13 NEW MEXICO
    152.37 NORTH CAROLINA
    138 OHIO
    184 OKLAHOMA
    184.16 PENNSYLVANIA
    0.23 SOUTH CAROLINA
    634.8 TENNESSEE
    3 TEXAS
    6150.35 VIRGINIA
    662.5 WEST VIRGINIA



    The list is the number of acres saved per state through 2003 by the CWPT. Thanks to those who contribute

    Was interested to see the 2.13 acres preserved in New Mexico. Likely either at the Glorieta or Valverde sites. I only wish that more could be preserved by the CWPT so that none of us reenactors out here would ever have to worry ever again about these precious sites being bulldozed and turned into a 'Santa Fe' or 'Taos' style resort, condos, etc.

    Just an opin from a Westerner in the West.

    Rob Burchardt
    Yep, another CWPT member! :D

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      Re: Blowing CWPT's horn for them

      Rob,

      New Mexico acres are at Glorietta (2.13)

      Thanks for your membership
      Mike "Dusty" Chapman

      Member: CWT, CVBT, NTHP, MOC, KBA, Stonewall Jackson House, Mosby Heritage Foundation

      "I would have posted this on the preservation folder, but nobody reads that!" - Christopher Daley

      The AC was not started with the beginner in mind. - Jim Kindred

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        Re: Blowing CWPT's horn for them

        Here's to hoping that they can increase the ground saved in South Carolina by at least 840 acres (the size of Morris Island!).

        In case anyone happened to miss this comment by the aspiring developer of the island here it is again:
        Huffman joked, "I'm surprised there are just 100 people who are opposed to it. I think I've got 100 people who are in favor of it. ... If that's all they got, that's great. I'd like to meet with them all individually. I'll buy them lunch."
        From the Charlotte Observer:
        Huffman said the design of his homes would be in keeping with an 1863 sketch of buildings on the Cummings Point side of the island, using natural building materials such as low-slung tin roofs, stucco and tabby (mixed oyster shell) construction with native woods.
        Huffman states:
        "This is privately owned land on which homes can be built," he said. "And I plan on building some fine houses out there in a historically sensitive style."
        How about his historical sensitivity here:
        "Morris Island would be for a very discerning-type market. But this is a one-of-a-kind setting. I wouldn't be jumping through all these hoops to build there if I didn't know there were eager buyers out there," Huffman said. "My God, it's one of the most gorgeous pieces of real estate in the Southeast. It's a 360-degree line of sight, and the worst view is of the ocean."
        [FONT=Franklin Gothic Medium]David Chinnis[/FONT]
        Palmetto Living History Association
        [url]www.morrisisland.org[/url]

        [i]"We have captured one fort--Gregg--and one charnel house--Wagner--and we have built one cemetery, Morris Island. The thousand little sand-hills that in the pale moonlight are a thousand headstones, and the restless ocean waves that roll and break on the whitened beach sing an eternal requiem to the toll-worn gallant dead who sleep beside."

        Clara Barton
        October 11, 1863[/i]

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