Photo: Brandywine Battlefield/Chita Middleton, The Conservation Fund

Saving America's Historic Lands

More than any history book, our nation's lands and waters tell our story and are visible links to our shared national legacy. Since our founding in 1985, we have worked to protect America’s most historically significant and threatened landscapes.

Civil War Battlefield Campaign

The Conservation Fund's Civil War Battlefield Campaign works in partnerships to protect our nation's hallowed ground, to provide comprehensive information on the 384 principal Civil War battlefields, designated by the Civil War Sites Advisory Commission, and to honor those that fought and died in the war. Read more>

Brandywine Battlefield: A Revolutionary War Historic Site in Pennsylvania

A critical piece of land, at the heart of what is now the Brandywine Battlefield National Historic Corridor, remained the only unprotected piece of the battlefield until we enabled its purchase through a loan to the Brandywine Conservancy. Read about the role of this land in the Revolutionary War.  Read more>

Camp Security: A Revolutionary War POW Camp In Pennsylvania

Camp Security Park is one of only a handful of POW camps established during the Revolutionary War era that have not been lost to residential or commercial development. We protected a 115-acre refuge of green pastures, known as the Walters Farm, named one of America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places back in 2005 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.  Read more>

Fort Davis National Historic Site

Fort Davis is one of the best examples of a frontier military post in the American Southwest. Best known as the headquarters for the first African-American Army regiments known as the Buffalo Soldiers, who were stationed here during the late 1800s, Fort Davis serves as a reminder of the significant role played by the military in the settlement and development of the western frontier.   Read more>

Japanese-American Internment Camp Preservation Initiative

The Fund established its Japanese-American Internment Camp Preservation Initiative to acquire the lands once used as campsites where more than 120,000 Japanese-Americans were held during World War II.   Read more>

Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Initiative

Through its Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Initiative, the Fund and its partners have set aside more than 25,000 acres along the Corps of Discovery’s 1804 route from Illinois to the Pacific Ocean and the 1806 journey back.   Read more>

Petrified Forest National Park

We helped add 26,000 acres full of fossils and archaeological sites to the Petrified Forest National Park in Arizona. See images and learn more about this truly unique American landscape that is now protected.  Read more>

Saving The Sheep Farm, A 300-Year-Old Colonial Settlement Site In Connecticut

Though the name may imply lands covered in wooly white creatures, this historic farm is significant for other reasons. Find out how we helped the town of Groton save this land and preserve its history.   Read more>

Spruce Hill Earthworks

The Conservation Fund helped secure the Spruce Hill Earthworks, a walled ceremonial site in central Ohio that is thought to have been built by the Hopewell culture nearly 2,000 years ago.  Read more>

State Game Lands 93: Honoring the Heroes of Flight 93

The Fund and its partners are ensuring that these lands are preserved in solemn tribute to the 40 brave Americans who lost their lives near rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.  Read more>

Tomb of Sergeant James Cooney, Gila National Forest

The Fund was pleased to assist the U.S. Forest Service in acquiring Cooney's Tomb, a historic landmark located in New Mexico's Gila National Forest. This interesting looking historic tomb and surrounding land had been privately owned but were surrounded entirely by public land. The tomb, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is all that is left of a mining town and attracts curious tourists.   Read more>
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