He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled his arms and waited for his "army" to arrive. The delay had an adverse effect on Brown's plan.

Library of Congress Harpers Ferry, Virginia, lay sleeping on the night of October 16, 1859, as 19 heavily armed men stole down mist-shrouded bluffs along the Potomac River where it joins the ...

Before daybreak one summer morning, I leave Washington, D.C., and head northwest, more or less parallel to the Potomac River, until it meets the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry. I park my car and ...

the intersection of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers, with the Blue Ridge Mountains rising around you. It’s right where John Brown crossed over the river to come into Harpers Ferry. You can see ...

A Queen Anne Revival in Harpers Ferry, a condo in an 1840 house in Charleston, and a shingled house in New Bedford.

General Dynamics-NASSCO has been awarded nearly $64 million to repair and modernize the USS Harpers Ferry, a 610-foot amphibious dock landing ship that is used to transport Marines and vehicles ...

He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled his arms and waited for his "army" to arrive. The delay had an adverse effect on Brown's plan.

Learn more about the best things to do in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia including must see historical sites and local outdoor ...

As a vital early American town, Harpers Ferry has been the site of a number of historical ... Its position at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers not only set the stage for such ...