The National Park Service announced Tuesday that it has awarded the largest single grant in the history of its American Battlefield Protection Program to help preserve one of the nation's lesser-known Civil War battlefields.
The $4.6 million grant will be used to purchase and preserve 250 acres of the Williamsburg Battlefield in York County, Virginia, which has sat on private land outside the city and former colonial capital.
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