Civil War Guide Touts Spy, Life off Battlefields
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- Published on Thursday, April 21, 2011 16:42
- Written by Associated Press
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - There are battlefields, and then there's Belle Boyd, a sexy Confederate spy from West Virginia.
The Appalachian Regional Commission is betting Boyd is one Civil War story that will draw tourists to her home in Martinsburg, W.Va. Boyd's house is just one of 150 lesser-known Civil War destinations the commission is highlighting on a new 13-state map released today.
As the country marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the guide is helping states cash in on increasingly popular cultural heritage tourism. It highlights old homesteads, a Mississippi camp for runaway slaves and the Altoona, Pa., site where Lincoln consulted with his allies on the Emancipation Proclamation.
The guide is for distribution in West Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Tennessee.
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