what or where are these disney pics???

[mrFDNY]

hi all,
i found these on a site,i have never seen anything that look like this place.so what is it??or where?perhap a disney planned park that never happened,so where was it supposed to be?anyone have any idea what these pics are?

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[palmtreegirl]

Not sure. I do remember a rumor awhile back that talked about Disney buying land somewhere up north to build a park like that though.

 

[dmslush]

I don't know.. but that lewis and clark one looks a LOT like Kali River Rapids. Maybe it was something that was thought of before Animal Kingdom??

 

[greenyskp]

It was supposed to be built in Virginia. I dont know all the of exact facts, but I know if you search Jim Hills site, he has LOTS of information on it.

www.jimhillmedia.com

Im glad they didnt make it.

 

[mickman1962]

they wanted to put a park in Virginia, but the locals thought it would take away from people visiting the old battlefields etc..

 

[Geoff_M]

Actually, If I'm not mistaken, part of the resistance was that the site Disney wanted to build the park on would have included part of a Civil War battlefield.

Update: I was wrong. It would have been a 3,000 acre development about 4 miles from the Manassas Battlefield. However, the concern was that there were 64 registered historical sites within 30 minutes from the Disney site. Disney's plan called for a theme park, plus commerical and residential development. The critics feared that many of these battlefield, historic districts, and such, would be encroached on by development if Disney was allowed to proceed.

See: http://www.cosmos-club.org/journals/1997/disney.html

 

[snowwhitemom]

Yes its true...it would have been in Haymarket Virginia. All the locals were realy upset about it not because of where it would be...on some of the actual battefields, because Disney was going to do reacts. of it which we all know would have been the best to anyone ones ability. It was actually all the other "Tacky Tourist" stuff being outside of there that kept it away...everyone thought that it would then take away from our history and heritage. I still have my bumper sticker that says "haymarket Va. Friends of the Mouse." Considering it was only a little ways up the road for me I was well to put it mildly, devasted when it fell through.

 

[momof3disneyholics]

Wow, this was very interesting. I have actually never heard of this.