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Tourism As a member of Virginia’s Retreat, a 13-County tourism marketing consortium, Cumberland County is included in the Civil Rights in Education Heritage Trail. The trail currently comprises 41 sites with detailed interpretation and photos at each location. Through a partnership with the Old Dominion Resource Conservation and Development Council and Virginia’s Retreat, the self-guided driving tour is being enlarged to add more sites. The County has submitted Luther P. Jackson High School for inclusion in the expansion, which should take place in the next two years. The County’s existing three stops along the trail are: the old jail/proposed museum, former Hamilton High School, and a former Rosenwald School at New Hope Church. The trail first opened on May 14, 2004, as a part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954. A number of critical upgrades and enhancements have been completed at Bear Creek Lake State Park, funded through the successful 2002 bond referendum. The Park received $5.3 million for improvements, including the addition of 13 guest cabins, a new meeting lodge facility, pavilion and the necessary infrastructure to connect these facilities to Cumberland County’s public water and sewer systems. The County worked in concert with the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation and the R.P. and Jack Ingle families to connect the “old jail” museum/courthouse area with the Park through a new trail. The mile-long nature trail runs down Foster Road, along the Ingle property, and connects to the Cumberland State Forest and the existing Forest road. This multi-use trail serves a dual purpose in linking the County’s key tourism assets and providing a connection to both the water and sewer systems. The trail will be closed to non-emergency vehicular traffic, but open to hikers, bikers and horseback riders. |
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