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Planned shared-use Henrico trail would follow historic Civil War path

The 3.2-mile paved New Market Heights Trail will link Deep Bottom Park with Four Mile Creek Park at New Market Road and Interstate 295 in Varina, connecting to the existing Four Mile Creek trailhead of the Virginia Capital Trail there.

,   and  Tom Lappas, Citizen Publisher
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The New Market Heights Trail would travel through American Battlefield Trust property on which a portion of the Civil War's Battle of New Market Heights occurred. (Tom Lappas/Henrico Citizen)

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