by Randall Arendt  

    Cultural Features  
  
    

Earthworks The Fields at Cold Harbor, Hanover County, Virginia Many farms near Southern cities contain earthen fortifications hurriedly dug and heaped up by Union or Confederate forces. Unless they are located within a national military park, however, chances are they are completely unprotected. When helping Hanover County, Virginia write new zoning regulations to encourage rural conservation subdivisions, I was asked by a developer to draw up a concept plan for property adjoining the Cold Harbor Battlefield, preserving the earthworks, and enabling him to offer the extensive conservation land to the National Park Service This is one of twenty such developments created since that code was adopted seven years ago. Update: I recently learned that conservation subdivisions in Hanover County have already preserved some 4,400 acres of land during the eight years since I helped staff write the current ordinance.    Photo by Randall Arendt.

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