Since 1983, the Central Maryland Heritage League has grown from a battlefield protection group. While the South Mountain State Battlefield is one of our prime initiatives, the organization has acquired Dahlgren Chapel, the private family chapel of Madeleine Vinton Dahlgren, located atop South Mountain and the Lamar Center, the site of Dr. Austin A. Lamar's surgical suite and home located in downtown historical Middletown, Maryland. These preservation efforts, coupled with our focus on the education of our cultural and natural heritage in the Middletown Valley and throughout Central Maryland, is the ongoing initiative of our organization.

Founded in 1989, the Central Maryland Heritage League is a 501(c)3 organization created to organize and operate an association for the charitable, educational, and civic purposes in the encouragement of preservation and interpretation, land management, conservation, and the preservation of natural habitat, no part of the net earnings of which are to inure to the benefit of any member.

Since 1989, the Central Maryland Heritage League has grown beyond a battlefield protection group. Our preservation efforts as a land trust are now coupled with our focus on the education of our cultural and natural heritage in the Middletown Valley.