News Release

Partner Groups Offer Preservation Tour of Cedar Creek & Belle Grove

Date: June 14, 2023
Contact: Cedar Creek & Belle Grove NHP, [phone]

Middletown, Va.— The National Park Service, Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation, and Belle Grove, Inc. will offer the tour “Partners in Preservation” on Saturday, June 24 and August 19 at 2 p.m. Three stops on a guided driving tour of the park give visitors a behind-the-scenes look at how partner organizations work together to preserve Cedar Creek Battlefield, Belle Grove Plantation, and other parts of Shenandoah Valley history. 

Meet at Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation’s Museum and Visitor Center, 8437 Valley Pike (US Route 11), just south of Middletown, Virginia. The tour will follow the ranger’s car from the Cedar Creek Battlefield Foundation museum to Belle Grove’s archeology exhibit “Unearthing Enslaved Lives at Belle Grove” and the Bowman-Hite farmstead being preserved by the National Park Service. The tour lasts about 90 minutes and covers 5 miles of driving. The road to Bowman-Hite Farm is not suitable for RVs or buses. 

“Partners in Preservation” is free. Reservations are not required. Call the National Park Service at [phone] or e-mail [e-mail] for more information. 

Established in 2002, Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park is a partnership between the National Park Service and five non-federal organizations. The partnership protects, preserves, and interprets nationally significant properties inside the park’s legislated boundaries. For more about the park, go online to www.nps.gov/cebe.