Officials want to turn battlefield into national park

PERRYVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Officials in central Kentucky are trying to rally community support for turning Perryville Battlefield into a national park.

Boyle county Judge-Executive Harold McKinney told the Danville-Boyle County Economic Development Partnership last week that he’d like to see the entire community get behind the proposal.

The Advocate-Messenger (http://bit.ly/1EsKUKq) reports Danville Mayor Mike Perros echoed the sentiments while lamenting that there hasn’t already been wider support in the past for the Civil War site.

It would take an act of Congress to turn the 7,000-acre site, which has already been designated as a national landmark, into a national park.

The state historic site was established in 1954 and has about 100,000 visitors each year.

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Information from: The (Danville, Ky.) Advocate-Messenger, http://www.centralkynews.com/amnews

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