Important parcels of land at Cold Harbor is saved by the American Battlefield Trust.

The Battle of Cold Harbor's location was approximately 10 miles (16 kilometers) northeast of the Confederate capital, Richmond Virginia in what is now the town of Mechanicsville. This area has important historic meaning and is the proof of one of the most significant events that happened in American history. The American Battlefield Trust has put much effort into the process of locating and saving those parcels of land at Cold Harbor.

In 2008, the Civil War Trust (a division of the American Battlefield Trust) placed the Cold Harbor battlefield on its Ten Most Endangered Battlefields list. Development pressure in the Richmond area was so great that only about 300 acres (1.2 km2) of what was once at least a 7,500-acre (30 km2) battlefield are currently preserved as part of the Richmond National Battlefield Park. Hanover County also maintains a small 50 acre park adjacent to the NPS's Cold Harbor holdings. The Trust and its partners have acquired and preserved 250 acres (1.0 km2) of the battlefield through late 2021.

This area is now open for visitors from all around the world who study American history and for those who want to see for their own eyes the land that once was a deadly battlefield of the American Revolutionary War.