Engineer service projects aide communities in Richmond, Stafford County
110805-Z-BN267-0001.JPG Photo By: Cotton Puryear

Stafford, Virginia - Members of the Stafford Board of Supervisors, the Fredericksburg City Council, the Virginia National Guard and the Friends of Stafford Civil War Sites held a groundbreaking ceremony June 22 at the location of the planned Stafford Civil War Site. Virginia National Guard Soldiers from the 276th Engineer Battalion are working to clear and grade an access road for the park. Approximately 75 engineers from the Powhatan-based 180th Horizontal Construction Company along with the Cedar Bluff-based 1033rd Engineer Support Company and a section from the Bowling Green-based 189th Multirole Bridge Company are scheduled to prepare road stretching 4,000 feet. The Petersburg-based Forward Support Company of the 276th Engineer Battalion will provide all logistical support for the units on site, keeping them fed and fueled. The planned Stafford Civil War Park includes three large Union battery fortifications, winter quarters encampment remains, a corduroy road and a pre-Civil War sandstone bridge ruin on property recently preserved by Stafford County and the City of Fredericksburg at the request of the Friends of the Stafford Civil War Sites. Future phases of this project will be to take the road to final grade in order to prepare the road for paving, and engineers from the 276th are scheduled to continue that work during their annual training period in 2012. This road will have multiple parking lots allowing visitors to get out and walk the historic grounds in Stafford County, allowing for greater awareness of this site while still preserving the original forts and encampment. The Soldiers are conducting the work as part of their two-week annual training period as part of the Innovative Readiness Training program. The IRT allows engineers to put their military skills to work on community service projects approved by National Guard Bureau. (Photo by Cotton Puryear, Virginia Department of Military Affairs)


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