Civil War Preservation Trust
Friday September 4, 2009
Camp Alleghany, W. VIRGINIA – December 13, 1861
Plans for a wind energy development in far western Highland County, Va., will have serious negative effects on this mountaintop battlefield and encampment site just one mile away, across the state border in West Virginia. The Virginia Department of Historic Resources’ attempts to evaluate the project, which include a score of 400-foot-tall turbines, have been hampered by a lack of cooperation from the developer.
From the Civil War Preservation Trust’s 2009 report, History Under Siege, which includes Camp Allegheny third on its list of 15 At-Risk Sites.
http://www.civilwar.org/history-under-siege/endangered/fifteen-additional-at-risk.html