Two Civil War battlefields in and around Northern Virginia have been named to Preservation Virginia’s 2025 list of the state’s most endangered historic places, with the nonprofit citing the growing threat posed by data center development.
Manassas National Battlefield Park in Prince William County and Wilderness Battlefied in Orange County are among 11 sites identified in this year’s report. Both are located near large-scale data center projects that have already been approved, including the 2,100-acre Prince William Digital Gateway in western Prince William.
Preservation Virginia said the state’s data center boom is increasingly encroaching on historic landscapes, particularly in Northern and Central Virginia, and has raised concerns about impacts to rural areas and battlefield sites…