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Cell towers put Georgia battlefield "at risk"

The Civil War Preservation Trust has named two Northwest Georgia battlefields in their 15 "at risk" sites.

The national group said the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park and the Resaca Battlefield are at risk, but for different reasons.

Chickamauga "is beset by proposals for cellular communications towers" and Resaca is still struggling to secure funding and move forward with an interpretive center, the group said....


Read entire article at Chattanooga Free Press