Thanks to the 756,000 visitors of the Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania Military Park
, the National Park Service estimates that in 2022, the local economy saw an economic impact of $49.9 million. Seeing as that local spend benefited 617 local jobs, the cumulative benefit from the Military Park to the local economy was $72.1 million.
The National Park Service economists who conducted this analysis estimate that visitors of national parks have spent $23.9 billion to local communities; that provides a $50.3 billion cumulative benefit to the U.S. economy, as the spending supported 378,400 jobs.
The National Park Service has done an extraordinary job preserving and highlighting the history of national battlefields, including the Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania Military Park. Learn more about this NPS study on NPS.gov.
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