Veterans cemetery is nearer reality as U.S. takes over Bucks parcel

A plan to build a national veterans cemetery for southeast Pennsylvania will move a big step forward today when the federal government formally takes possession of the 205-acre site in lower Bucks County .

Developer Toll Brothers Inc. is expected to sign the Upper Makefield Township farmland over to federal officials for $10.5 million at an informal event that will cap years of fights over the plan.

''It was a battle,'' said Dan Fraley, county military and veterans affairs director. ''It wasn't easy and it's a great victory for Bucks County.'' Read more

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