SHAF Donates $5,000 to Antietam National Battlefield for the Restoration of the Piper Farm Lane
NPS News Release, August 17, 2007 – This donation will allow the National Park Service to begin work on this restoration project several years ahead of schedule. Work will include […]
Replanting Piper’s Orchard
The final block of the historic Piper Orchard is tentatively scheduled to be planted Saturday, 8 December 2007. In preparation for the planting, arrangements were made with Maryland Correctional Enterprises […]
From the Archives
(from the December 2009 SHAF Newsletter) by Tom Clements, SHAF President In hopes that it may interest our readers, and to give them a taste of the memoirs of many veterans […]
Piper Farm Lane: Workday 11/6/2010
Here are a few photos from the workday this past Saturday. About 20 SHAF members and friends turned out on a glorious fall day to clear brush and start construction […]
Victory for Preservation!
Something I thought we’d never see has happened! The 44 acre Wilson tract, the triangular parcel of land south of the Cornfield and north of the Visitor’s Center, has been […]
Preservation Opportunities!
This property is known as the Wilson Farm, but Antietam scholar Joseph Harsh called it the Bloody Pasture. It is just south of th Cornfield and bordered by Cornfield Avenue, […]
Save Historic Antietam Foundation Creates Agency Fund
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Ally Sirbaugh-(301) 745-5210 Save Historic Antietam Foundation Creates Agency Fund HAGERSTOWN, Maryland, November 22, 2019—Save Historic Antietam Foundation (SHAF) recently created an agency fund at the […]
SHAF Workday this Saturday, March 30
SHAF Workday this Saturday, March 30 SHAF will be holding a work day this Saturday, March 30 at the American Battlefield Trust’s Poffenberger Tract directly across from the Antietam National […]
Establishment of a Special Zoning Category
We worked with local citizens and elected officials to establish a special zoning category around the Antietam Battlefield.
Agricultural Land Preservation Program
We promoted and encouraged an agricultural land preservation program in Washington County, Maryland as a step toward scenic preservation.