In the near future visitors here will be able to walk along seven acres of “pristine” Civil War property in the Crow Valley area of Whitfield County.
Monday night, Save the Dalton Battlefields LLC began the process to donate the land to the county. The Whitfield County Board of Commissioners voted 4-0 to accept the property.
The site, located off Reed Road and just north of Poplar Springs Drive, is known as Potato Hill and Picket Top. The land served as the northeast corner of the Confederate defenses of Dalton in Crow Valley during the first two weeks in May 1864 as the Atlanta Campaign opened up in Whitfield County.
Bob Jenkins, president of Save the Dalton Battlefields, described the land as “an important piece of battlefield property.” He said the local group received assistance from the Georgia Battlefields Association to help buy the property.
“We are fortunate to have the generous support of the Georgia Battlefields Association, a state organization designed to preserve the historic Civil War sites across Georgia,” Jenkins said. “We are also fortunate to have the support of the Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia, which helped pay for several of the costs of this project such as the survey and other expenses needed to help open this site to the public.”
The land “won’t cost the county anything,” Jenkins said. The group is requiring the county to preserve the land for historical purposes, never build businesses or homes there, and allow the public to access it.
Save the Dalton Battlefields hopes to construct an interpretive trail and roadside gravel pull-off for public access. Jenkins said the group plans for a site similar to the George Disney Trail in Rocky Face.
Save the Dalton Battlefields formed in the fall of 2011 to identify, acquire and preserve historic Civil War sites in Whitfield County. Members of its board are Jenkins, Paul Belk, Bill Blackman, Jim Burran, Greg Cockburn, Kevin McAuliff and Kathryn Sellers.
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June 26, 2012
Whitfield County receives gift of Civil War property
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