As a vital early American town, Harpers Ferry has been the site of a number of historical events. It was a point of supply for Meriwether Lewis’s Corps of Discovery, the site of John Brown’s ...

NASSCO has been awarded nearly $64 million to repair and modernize the USS Harpers Ferry, a 610-foot amphibious dock landing ...

The West Virginia park is a wonderland for nature and history lovers, boasting more than 200 historic structures.

ISBN: 1611215978 John Brown and the Coming of the Civil War John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry amplified North / South tensions ... though another six managed to escape. At this point, the authors ...

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Now aboard the USS Harpers Ferry, the 27-year-old platoon commander ... We had a long training workup to get to this point.” Sailing with two Navy ships in the Indo-Pacific Ocean, the 15th ...

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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.

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PD By the summer of 1859, Brown had finalized his plans. His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded by mountains, tucked at the bottom of a ravine created ...

In one fateful night, John Brown brought the country closer to Civil War (Video: Meredith Bragg). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Day ...