WASHINGTON, June 3 (UPI) -- A 175-mile area from Gettysburg, Pa., to Monticello, Va., has been added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation's endangered historic places.
"This is where the Civil War was fought. This is where our Founding Fathers lived. It just reeks of history," said Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
"There are African-American sites. There are native American sites. Our whole nation's history is, in one way or another, encapsulated in this corridor."
Promoters of the historic corridor said they are seeking to boost the threatened area near the nation's capital that has lost more than 150,000 acres of farmland since the early 1980s, the Washington Post reported Friday.
The corridor, near Route 15, takes in six presidential homes, a concentration of Civil War battlefields, a million acres on the national historic register and the rolling Piedmont scenery that inspired the Founding Fathers, according to Moe.
