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SHAF 2025 Annual Meeting
We are holding our annual meeting and elections on Saturday April 26 at 12:30 p.m. We are meeting at the Boonsboro Branch Library, (on the western edge of Boonsboro, on Rt. 34. Our program includes John Schildt, Dennis Frye and Tom Clemens discussing the founding of SHAF and our early days. We have created SHAF logo hoodies and have a
Demolition of Poffenberger House
SHAF recently supported efforts to demolish the post-Civil War Poffenberger House across the road from the Antietam National Battlefield Visitor Center. The American Battlefield Trust purchased this property several years ago, and SHAF has held several work days at the property that included tree and meadow clearing and cleaning out the house to prepare it for demolition.
SHAF Spring 2025 Work Day
Our annual Spring Work Day on March 1, 2025, is fast approaching! We will work at East Woods, the same place at Antietam National Battlefield where we worked last fall. We will continue to clear non-native brush to restore the original appearance of the site, which helps our visitors better understand what happened there. Again, this will depend upon the
SHAF Workday Recap, October 19, 2024
SHAF is delighted to have completed another successful Work Day. We had a turnout of about 20 people, including 6 students from the Boonsboro High School Rho Kappa Honor Society. (We would have more, but we were competing with Homecoming weekend.) Under the direction of the National Park Service, we cut out an invasive shrub in the East Woods. We
SHAF 2024 Annual Meeting
Posted on April 5, 2024 by Kevin PawlakSHAF is pleased to announce our 2024 Annual Membership Meeting will be held on Saturday, April 20. We will meet at 12:30 p.m. at the Boonsboro branch of the Washington County Free Library in the public meeting room. The library is located on MD Rt. 34, just on the west edge of Boonsboro.
2024 Annual Meeting Reminder
2024 Annual Meeting Reminder Reminder – SHAF Annual Membership meeting Saturday, April 20, 12:30 p.m. Boonsboro Branch of the Washington County Free Library We will have updates on SHAF activities, financial reports, elections and a speaker, Steve Stotelmyer, who will talk about his new book, From Frederick to Sharpsburg: People, Places, and Events of the Maryland Campaign before Antietam, which will
SHAF acquires historic signal station site
Posted on November 10, 2000 by Kevin Pawlak The Save Historic Antietam Foundation, Inc. (SHAF) announced today that it will acquire eight (8) acres south of Sharpsburg that includes the site of a famous Union signal station in an area adjacent to Union General George B. McClellan’s headquarters. The property is significant because photographer Alexander Gardner produced some of his most famous photographs
SHAF Eyes Purchase of Potomac Ford Near Shepherdstown
Posted on February 1, 2006 by Kevin Pawlak One of the oldest battlefield-preservation organizations is setting its sights on purchase of a significant piece of battlefield land on the banks of the Potomac River. Save Historic Antietam Foundation (SHAF) hopes to purchase 13 acres on the West Virginia side of Shepherdstown Ford, a mile and a half downstream from Shepherdstown. Here on Sept.
SHAF Wins State Grant for Tolson’s Chapel
The Maryland Historical Trust anounced a grant to the Save Historic Antietam Foundation (SHAF) of $50,000 in FY2007 for “carpentry and masonry repairs to foundation, sills, floors & supports, roof repairs and installation of cupola” on Tolson’s Chapel in Sharpsburg. Tolson’s was used as a free school immediately after the Civil War, educating the town’s African-American children. It is one of very
