A court hearing held Tuesday on an injunction to stop the Meadowcreek Parkway from being built came only a day after a statewide nonprofit named McIntire Park as one of Virginia’s most endangered historic sites.
Preservation Virginia announced Monday that McIntire Park is threatened by the 2-mile parkway, part of which will cut through Charlottesville parkland. In its explanation of why the city’s central park was included on this year’s list, Preservation Virginia wrote, “New road construction proposed through the park has the potential to adversely impact the historic integrity of the park and to lessen its recreational use.”
The organization also said that the park’s nine-hole golf course, which conforms to the land’s topography, is an exceedingly rare type still found in the United States.
“This is clearly an important landscape,” said Daniel Bluestone, a member of Preservation Virginia. Bluestone also testified in court Tuesday on behalf of the Coalition to Preserve McIntire Park, which is seeking to halt the parkway’s construction.
Of the park being included on the endangered site list, Bluestone said, “It’s really a significant recognition of the reality that the park is under threat.”
Nine places throughout the state made Preservation Virginia’s list, including the Wilderness Battlefield in Orange County. A Wal-Mart Supercenter is proposed to be built on the land, where the first clash between Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant took place during the Civil War.
The other places listed are: the former home of the Colonial Heights Baptist Church in Colonial Heights; Wolftrap in Isle of Wight County; the Selma mansion in Loudoun County; the historic barns of Pittsylvania County; the Konnarock Girls’ School in Troutdale; the 1908 Marion Schoolhouse in Smyth County; and the Obici House in Suffolk.
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