For those who are interested in history but don't want to drive too far to find it, John Brown Farm State Historic Site is worth a visit. Located less than a mile southwest of the Olympic Jumping ...

John Brown was "Isaac Smith," a cattle buyer ... In the 1880s, Frederick Douglass raised money to place a granite memorial at the site. In 1892 it was dismantled brick by brick and transported ...

John Brown was a man of action -- a man who would not be deterred from his mission of abolishing slavery. On October 16, 1859, he led 21 men on a raid of the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry ...