Timeline: Saving Civil War Battlefields-- Part 1: Two Wins

From the Fall 2012 Preservation Magazine by Laura Wainman.

1994: Walt Disney Company ends the "Third Manassas" battle by withdrawing its proposal to build a $650 million history-themed park. Disney's America, less than four miles from Manassas National Battlefield Park in Virginia.

1996: More than 100 years after the largest cavalry battle of the Civil War, the race to turn the land where it was waged into a Formula One race track ends, leaving Brandy Station, Virginia, intact.

--Old Secesh