The Mosby Heritage Area Association has contracted John Milner Associates, Inc. to develop a preservation plan for the Civil War cavalry battlefields of Aldie, Middleburg, and Upperville. The preservation plan is being funded by a grant through the American Battlefield Protection Program of the National Park Service.

"After an extensive request-for-proposals process, we conducted several interviews, and now the Mosby Heritage Area Association is pleased to begin working with John Milner Associates," said Executive Director, Judy Reynolds. "The Mosby Heritage Area Association is especially pleased that the preservation plan is launching during 2013, which is the 150th commemoration year of these cavalry battles."

Confederate General J.E.B. Stuart fought delaying actions against probing Union cavalry and infantry units in June 1863 to screen the movement of the Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania prior to the Battle of Gettysburg.

Given the increasing population and development in Aldie, Middleburg, Upperville corridor along route 50, the Mosby Heritage Area Association decided to make these battlefields a top preservation priority.

Assisted by the Mosby Heritage Area Association, John Milner Associates, will be tasked with community outreach, including public meetings to gather public input for the plan, beginning this summer.. Landowners and local government officials will also be consulted.

John Milner Associates produced the historic structures and cultural landscape reports for the Washington Monument; campus heritage plans for Virginia Military Institute and Washington and Lee University; and archeological data recovery at the National Museum of the American Indian.

For more see www.nps.gov/history/hps/abpp or the Mosby Heritage Area Association at www.mosbyheritagearea.org, 540-687-6681, or info@mosbyheritagearea.org.