Battle Looms over Gettysburg Casino Plan
by Eric Niiler
Eric Niiler, NPR
Dean Shultz, amateur historian and preservationist, is upset that developers plan a casino so close to East Cavalry Battlefield. His family settled in Gettysburg in 1847.
Geoffrey Gaudreault, NPR
The proposed site of the Gettysburg Gaming Resort and Spa is less than a mile from East Cavalry Battlefield.
Morning Edition, June 28, 2005 · Developers want to build a casino just outside of a Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg. But many local residents and Civil War buffs say their town and nearby battlefield is the wrong place for gambling.
Developers want to build the 3,000-slot-machine Gettysburg Gaming Resort and Spa less than a mile away from East Cavalry Battlefield, where Confederate Gen. Jeb Stuart was defeated by George Custer, then a young Union officer, in 1863.
Backers of the project, who include a local business owner and six other investors, say it will create 800 new fulltime jobs and pump millions of dollars into the local economy. But critics say the project threatens to bring traffic problems and could bring problems like prostitution and crime to the region.
Preservationists already call U.S. Route 15, which runs from Gettysburg, Penn., to Monticello, Va., one of the most threatened historic roads in the country.
I can't believe that anybody would think of doing something like this.
This is hollowed ground. The want to develop 43 acres. This is unacceptable. It is unacceptable on or by any battlefield in this country. Too many good men died on both sides, for it to be marred by something that could be built anywhere else. This is stuff that really ticks me off.
by Eric Niiler
Eric Niiler, NPR
Dean Shultz, amateur historian and preservationist, is upset that developers plan a casino so close to East Cavalry Battlefield. His family settled in Gettysburg in 1847.
Geoffrey Gaudreault, NPR
The proposed site of the Gettysburg Gaming Resort and Spa is less than a mile from East Cavalry Battlefield.
Morning Edition, June 28, 2005 · Developers want to build a casino just outside of a Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg. But many local residents and Civil War buffs say their town and nearby battlefield is the wrong place for gambling.
Developers want to build the 3,000-slot-machine Gettysburg Gaming Resort and Spa less than a mile away from East Cavalry Battlefield, where Confederate Gen. Jeb Stuart was defeated by George Custer, then a young Union officer, in 1863.
Backers of the project, who include a local business owner and six other investors, say it will create 800 new fulltime jobs and pump millions of dollars into the local economy. But critics say the project threatens to bring traffic problems and could bring problems like prostitution and crime to the region.
Preservationists already call U.S. Route 15, which runs from Gettysburg, Penn., to Monticello, Va., one of the most threatened historic roads in the country.
I can't believe that anybody would think of doing something like this.
This is hollowed ground. The want to develop 43 acres. This is unacceptable. It is unacceptable on or by any battlefield in this country. Too many good men died on both sides, for it to be marred by something that could be built anywhere else. This is stuff that really ticks me off.
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