Here is what is being said about The Journey.

"One of the most stupendous scenes of nature"
"Worth a voyage across the Atlantic"
    Thomas Jefferson

“RESOLVED by the Senate, the House of Delegates concurring, That the Virginia General Assembly hereby acknowledge the intrinsic importance to Virginia of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground project and recognize this historic corridor as a gateway to some of the most important locations in both America and Virginia history, encompassing centuries of historic sites in scenic settings.”
    February 9, 2001
    Senate Joint Resolution No 428 October 2, 2001

"This part of Virginia has soaked up more of the blood, sweat, and tears of American history than any other part of the country. It has bred more founding fathers, inspired more soaring hopes and ideals and witnessed more triumphs, failures, victories, and lost causes than any other place in the country."
    C. Vann Woodward of Yale University

“If any land in America deserves to be called Hallowed Ground, it is the red clay soil of Virginia on which so much of this nation's past is preserved."
    Richard M. Ketchum, noted authority on the Revolutionary War

"My introduction to the counties and villages within the Hallowed Ground began in the mid- 1930’s when my father, a physician who cared for many patients in the region, “parked me” on farms in the region for summer to learn the “discipline and hard work needed to harvest the land and protect the unique way of life.   Off and on the region has offered me a home ever since.
  Today’s announcement is a clarion call to all citizens, if they want to preserve our American heritage, each has to pay attention to, and participate in, and volunteer for   public service, to ensure the efforts of the Journey Through hallowed Ground can be brought to fruition.
  This ... initiative is an outstanding example of   citizens and businesses working together to celebrate our remarkable American heritage and work intelligently to plan for future growth. I endorse it full heartedly.”
    John Warner, U.S. Senator

"The historic corridor known as the Journey through Hallowed Ground holds an amazing amount of our nation’s history – over 400 years, from the Native American trading route to the Revolutionary War to the Civil War and beyond.   It should be celebrated, and it is incumbent upon us to hold sacred these historic resources and share them with all of America and the World.   This land has been inspirational to American leaders for hundreds of years and this private-public sector initiative continues a tradition that speaks to the core of what I hold dear - our American values."
    Frank Wolf, Member of Congress

"I applaud and fully support the good work being done to preserve the historic corridor known as the Journey Through Hallowed Ground.  This joint public-private sector initiative will allow our children and grandchildren to enjoy the numerous irreplaceable treasures found along the 175 mile path which follows Route 15 from Gettysburg to Charlottesville.  Future generations will be able to trace the old Iroquois and Susquehannock Indian trading routes, pay tribute to the honor and bloodshed that transpired at the many Civil War battlefields, and reflect on the birth of American liberty in the homes of many former Presidents, including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe.  I look forward to working together to make these historic preservation plans become a reality as we approach the 150 th Anniversary of the Civil War and the 400 th Anniversary of Virginia and America."
    George Allen, U.S. Senator

“ It is the most patriotic of gestures, to recognize and value the American history that   lies between Gettysburg and Monticello.   It is truly is “hallowed ground” and it is our duty to find solutions that balance our need to manage growth and to leave our heritage in tact for our children and our grandchildren,”
    Todd R. Platt, Member of Congress

“The Journey Through Hollowed Ground initiative offers a tremendous opportunity to achieve many worthy goals:   preserving the rich diversity of our heritage, helping to stimulate local pride and truly enrich the residents and visitors to our region as well as generating promising new economic opportunities through heritage tourism.”
    Paul S. Sarbanes, U.S. Senator

“Although the region recovered form the Civil War, it could never recover from the blacktop and concrete revolution that threatens it today.   To pave over the northern Piedmont would pave over much of America’s past – permanently.   But that does not have to happen.   If they are wisely planned, growth and preservation can march Hand in hand.”
    James M. McPherson, Edwards Professor of American History, Princeton University-1996

"This is the ground of our Founding Fathers. These are landscapes that speak volumes--small towns, churches, fields, mountains, creeks and rivers with names such as Bull Run and Rappahannock. They are the real thing, and what shame we will bring on ourselves if we destroy them"
    David McCullough, a Pulitzer Prize winning writer and historian

"I can ride above the storms and look down into the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet! And the glorious Sun, when rising as if out of distant water, just gliding the tops of the mountains, and giving life to all nature."
    Thomas Jefferson

“If, as the corridor is expanded to meet demand, transportation improvements are not made using context sensitive design, then these improvements could have a very detrimental impact on the scenic and historic quality of the route…if they are done with little or no attention paid to roadside character, the need for access to visitor-oriented businesses, screening of non-scenic areas, and wayfinding needs – then the route will be significantly compromised.”
    Elizabeth Hughes, Deputy Director/Deputy SHPO Maryland Historical Trust

“Loudoun County has been the fastest growing county in the country for several years, and the dramatic evidence of this rapid rate of growth is measurable on a daily basis. What is not often mentioned, as growth expands across the countryside, is what is lost. The Journey Through Hallowed Ground initiative is crucial as it works to bring to national attention the need to preserve our irreplaceable national history.
   The threats to our historic and natural environment have never been greater at a time when we are working to preserve what is unique about our communities and to protect the quality of life of our citizens.”
    Scott K. York, Chairman, Loudoun County, Board of Supervisors

“The corridor between Gettysburg, PA and Charlottesville, Virginia is so rich with heritage and any effort and success made with this project is an invaluable gift to future generations.”
    Alice Estrada, Executive Director, Main Street, Gettysburg, Inc.

"You stand on a very high point of land. On your right comes up the Shenandoah, having ranged along the foot of the mountain a hundred miles to seek a vent. On your left approaches the Potomac, in quest of a passage also. In the moment of their junction, they rush together against the mountain, rend it asunder, and pass off to the sea. The first glance of this scene hurries our senses into the opinion that this earth has been created in time, that the mountains were formed first, that the rivers began to flow afterwards, that in this place, particularly, they have been dammed up by the Blue Ridge of mountains, and have formed an ocean which filled the whole valley; that continuing to rise they have at length broken over this spot, and have torn the mountains down from its summit to its base.   The piles of rocks on each hand, but particularly on the Shenandoah, the evident marks of their disrupture and avulsion from their beds by the most powerful agents of nature, corroborate the impression. But the distant finishing, which nature has given to the picture, is of a very different character.   It is a true contrast to the foreground.   It is a placid and delightful as that is wild and tremendous.   For the mountain being cloven asunder, she presents to your eye, through the cleft, a small catch of smooth, blue horizon, at an infinite distance in the plain country, inviting you, as it were, from the riot and tumult roaring around, to pass through the breach and participate in the calm below"
    Thomas Jefferson, Notes of the State of Virginia

“Development pressure combined with uninformed land use policies, ignore the damage being done everyday to what should be a journey through the history of America.”
     Barbara Franco, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

National Award for "Journey Through Hallowed Ground" Project
"The projects selected this year represent some of the best grassroots conservation and greenway development efforts in the United States. TCF supports these local initiatives because they are thoughtful, action-oriented projects that will serve as models for other communities around the country."
     The Conservation Fund's Chairman of the Board, Patrick F. Noonan

“To travel this route is to take a Journey Through Hallowed Ground, as it is known…and for good reason.”
     Margaret Good, Executive Director, Waterford Foundation, Inc.

“The work of the JTHG is of unparalleled importance and the successes many in such a short time.”
     Kathleen Kilpatrick, State Historic Preservation Officer, Commonwealth of Virginia