The McDowell Battlefield Staunton-to-Parkersburg Pike Landowner's Guide

By Nancy Crosby and John Hutchinson

 

Of the 15 most significant Civil War sites in the Valley region, McDowell is the only site where the landscape has retained the character it had at the time of the conflict to the extent that students of the war can still visualize and experience, over a wide area, the topography's influence over decision making and the lives of the combatants.

 
--1990 National Park Service Study

Table of Contents

Introduction

Agriculture and Forestal Districts

Conservation Easements

Gifts of Land

Tax Benefits of Conservation Easements

Appendices

Endnotes

 


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Overlooking Augusta farmland.
Part of the historic route of the Staunton - Parkersburg Turnpike.