620,000 Trees Being Planted to Honor Civil War Dead-- Part 2

A group has been working twenty years to make this come true in a project called Journey Through Hallowed Ground.  You can sponsor a tree with a $100 donation.

One tree is to be planted for each individual soldier who died, and with modern technology you can even find specific trees planted for specific soldiers (at least the known ones).

Australia has something like it with their Alley of Trees to honor their World War I soldiers.

--Old Secesh

620,000 Trees Being Planted to Honor Civil War Dead-- Part 1

From the December 22, 2013, Bay Bulletin.

Some 108 oak, maple, cedar and dogwood trees had been planted as a highway beautification project to honor Americans who died in the conflict.

When it is completed, the line of trees will stretch from Thomas Jefferson's home at Monticello near Charlottesville, Virginia, to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.  The cost is expected to be $65 million and it will be the largest man-made pathway of trees on earth, 180 miles long and crossing through three states.

Already, 248 trees have been planted at Bliss Orchard on the Gettysburg Battlefield.

--Old Secesh

Trees For Troops: One For Each Who Died-- Part 3

BY THE NUMBERS:

5: NUMBER OF MILES covered in Phase One of the Living Legacy Project.

$65 MILLION: Total estimated cost of the Living Legacy Project.

1 MILLION ACRES on the National Register of Historic PLaces within the project.

30 HISTORIC DOWNTOWN COMMUNITIES in the JTHG National Heritage Area.

This was compiled by David Robert Weible.

--Old SeceshTree

Trees For Troops: One For Each Who Died-- Part 2

BY THE NUMBERS:

5 SPECIES OF TREES included in the Living Legacy Project. They are red oaks, red buds, red cedars, redtwig dogwoods and red maples. I wonder why there is all the red? Perhaps to signify blood or maybe because they grow well in the area?

620,000 GEOTAGS to be installed on the trees throughout the project. The geotags will provide smartphone users with the information of the individual soldier the tree represents, including photos, diary entries and letters. Great idea, but what about those of us who aren't smart enough to have one?

80 MILES length of the JTHG National Scenic Byway. All of it will be part of the Living Legacy Project. The route begins at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home, who authored the phrase, "All men are created equal." It ends in Gettysburg, where Abraham Lincoln referenced the fight for those words in his Gettysburg Address.

--Old Secesh

Trees for Troops: One For Each Soldier Who Died-- Part 1

From the Fall 2012 Preservation Magazine.

The Journey Through Hallowed Ground (JTHG) National Heritage Area Partnership plans to (it already has) launch its Living Legacy Project this fall in Oatlands, a National Trust Historic Site in Leesburg, Virginia. The project aims to plant one tree along the JTHG National Scenic Byway for each soldier who died during the Civil War.

BY THE NUMBERS:

3,312: NEW TREES TO BE PLANTED in phase one of the project which will run from Oatlands to Gilbert's Corner in Loudon County, Virginia.

54,364 JOBS DEPENDENT on heritage tourism created within the JTHG National Heritage area.

50 CIVIL WAR BATTLES took place on sites within the JTHG Heritage Area, including Antietam, Fredericksburg, Wilderness, and Gettysburg-- the largest concentration of Civil War battlefields in the country.

A Great Green Idea. --Old Secesh