Fair Oaks/Seven Pines

[kasey00]

I apologize if this is already a thread and I just didn't find it, but do we know what happened, that the battlefield at Fair Oaks/Seven pines wasn't preserved? Based on what I'm reading it was one of the first significant loss battles in the war, correct? Was it private land that was just eventually parceled off and developed little by little? I should research the area...that may explain a little better. It seems like there was so much thought for preservation in some areas...not so much in others!

 

[KLSDAD]

I apologize if this is already a thread and I just didn't find it, but do we know what happened, that the battlefield at Fair Oaks/Seven pines wasn't preserved? Based on what I'm reading it was one of the first significant loss battles in the war, correct? Was it private land that was just eventually parceled off and developed little by little? I should research the area...that may explain a little better. It seems like there was so much thought for preservation in some areas...not so much in others!

I just started to read up in prep for a trip to Richmond (hopefully) soon. I had always thought that the airport was built on the site but I see now that it is south of the Williamsburg Road so that doesn't explain the neglect of the bulk of the battlefield.

 

[Jamieva]

Seven Pines - May 31, 1862

BATTLE MAP | American Battlefield Trust’s map of the Battle of Seven Pines, Virginia on May 31, 1862

www.battlefields.org

The battlefield is right on top of route 60 and both sides of it north and south in the vicinity of where the airport is now. The airport itself was built in the 1920s