Preservation
Most of the preservation effort at the Opequon Battlefield has been privately oriented. The Civil War Trust has preserved 442 acres of the 575-acre battlefield, achieving its most recent acquisition in tandem with the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation and the Virginia Land Conservation Foundation in 2009. At that time, these preservation groups purchased a 209-acre parcel known as the “Huntsberry Farm” tract, named for a family who lived on the land at the time of the battle, for $3.35 million.
The Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation is presently engaged in an effort to preserve another 30 acres of the Middle Field in time for the 150th Anniversary of the battle in 2014.
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