Virginia acquires peninsula property.
The Commonwealth of Virginia recently acquired 1,100-acres of peninsula land along the Potomac River and Aquia Creek riverfronts that will be turned into parkland. The land was purchased for $6.1 million with the assistance of the Trust for Public Land public land, in U.S. history, land owned by the federal government but not reserved for any special purpose, e.g., for a park or a military reservation. Public land is also called land in the public domain. Except in Texas, which made retention of its public lands one of the conditions for joining the Union, there are no state public lands. Seven of the original states ceded their western lands to the federal government when they entered the Union.. The property, known as Widewater, located 40 miles south of Washington, D.C., will be managed by the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation. Officials at Virginia Governor Mark Warner's office say that the park will undergo a 25-year process, beginning with the formation of a master plan.
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