The fight over the Princeton Battlefield could be won Thursday night.
Part of the site where General George Washington won a pivotal fight with British troops in the Revolutionary War, 1777, is now being eyed for development. The Princeton planning board will soon make a decision.
The Institute for Advanced Study — where Albert Einstein worked — owns 21 acres of undeveloped land where the right flank of the American army faced off with the British. The Institute wants to develop faculty housing on seven of those acres. Preservationists are crying foul. The plan would rip out the line of trees that currently represents the border between the public battlefield park and the Institute's privately-held land. It would also put 14 acres of the Institute's undeveloped battlefield land into a conservation easement, thereby making one large, fully accessible park.
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/...story-buffs-try-to-save-land-in-private-hands
Part of the site where General George Washington won a pivotal fight with British troops in the Revolutionary War, 1777, is now being eyed for development. The Princeton planning board will soon make a decision.
The Institute for Advanced Study — where Albert Einstein worked — owns 21 acres of undeveloped land where the right flank of the American army faced off with the British. The Institute wants to develop faculty housing on seven of those acres. Preservationists are crying foul. The plan would rip out the line of trees that currently represents the border between the public battlefield park and the Institute's privately-held land. It would also put 14 acres of the Institute's undeveloped battlefield land into a conservation easement, thereby making one large, fully accessible park.
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/...story-buffs-try-to-save-land-in-private-hands
