UPDATE: Property that was once home to General Electric on NW Broad Street at Van Cleve Lane, could soon be incorporated into the Stones River Battlefield. Through a real-estate transaction, the American Battlefield Trust closed on the 42-acre site a couple of months ago.
That was Gib Backlund who retired from the National Parks Service, most recently working at the Stones River Battlefield. He told WGNS that the real-estate transaction was a lengthy process.
You may recall O'Reilly's Auto Parts bought the land about three years ago with hopes of building a distribution center on the property. After O'Reilly's learned about the historic significance of the property, the company agreed to sell the land for a little over $4-million, which is close to what they paid for the 42-acres.
After O'Reilly's sold the 42-acre site to the American Battlefield Trust, they purchased land in neighboring Wilson County to use for their distribution center.