Significant Property Purchase Along Harpers Ferry Road
The Save Historic Antietam Foundation Inc. (SHAF) is pleased to announce the acquisition of a modern ranch house located along the renowned Harpers Ferry Road. This property, which has been […]
2025 Fall Work Day Cancelled
Our scheduled work day on Saturday, October 25, 2025, is cancelled due to the park being closed. We will look into rescheduling if possible when the park is opened for […]
Update on Construction at Antietam National Battlefield Visitor Center
The construction project to fix the leak in the lower floor of the Antietam National Battlefield Visitor Center is set to start the week of September 29. Staging activity will […]
Help Reforest the West Woods
In conjunction with the National Park Service and American Battlefield Trust, Save Historic Antietam Foundation is working with the Maryland Dept. of Natural Resources to replant the proper type of […]
SHAF 2025 Annual Meeting Minutes
SHAF held its annual meeting for 2025 on April 26, 2025. The minutes from that meeting are included below.
“The Best War Map Ever Made”: Ezra Carman & the Atlas of the Battlefield of Antietam
Our 2013 Dr. Joseph L. Harsh Memorial Scholarship recipient, Jamesina Thatcher, examined the mapping work done by the Antietam Battlefield Board in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Included in […]
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 […]
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 […]
2025 SHAF Spring Work Day Recap
SHAF holds bi-annual Work Days to restore and improve the historic landscape of the Antietam Battlefield and its environs. We do these in cooperation with the National Park Service and […]
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. […]
