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The town has a significant place in American history. James Rumsey made a public demonstration of a steamboat in 1787 on the nearby Potomac River. Shepherdstown was proposed as the National Capital in 1790, losing to Alexandria, Virginia, and Georgetown, Maryland, at the tidal headwaters of the Potomac.
Packhorse Ford, also known historically as Pack Horse Ford, Blackford's Ford and Boteler's Ford, is a historic crossing point of the Potomac River. It is located about 1 mile (1.6 km) east of downtown Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and south of Sharpsburg, Maryland, USA. The crossing was a Native American crossing site and eventually became a ...
The Shepherdstown Historic District was established and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973, with a boundary expansion to include the entire town in 1987. Potomac Mills located nearby in Washington County, Maryland, was added in 2014. [8] On January 3, 2000, Shepherdstown was the site of the Peace Talks between Israel and ...
MD 34 (Shepherdstown Pike) at Canal Road, 1200 ft. east of Potomac River 39°26′16.82″N 77°47′49.07″W / 39.4380056°N 77.7969639°W / 39.4380056; -77.7969639 ( The Battle of Antietam or Sharpsburg
The Potomac Mills was a mill complex located along the Potomac River roughly .5 miles (0.80 km) downriver of Shepherdstown. Built in 1826, the complex was originally used as a gristmill. In 1829, the mill began producing cement for the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal's construction. The factory continued to produce cement after the canal opened, and ...
The James Rumsey Monument is located approximately 1,490 ft (454 m) southeast of the New James Rumsey Bridge (Maryland Route 34), 878 ft (268 m) southeast of the confluence of Town Run with the Potomac River, 783 ft (239 m) southwest of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (on the Maryland side of the Potomac), and 345 ft (105 m) west of Shepherdstown ...
The Battle of Shepherdstown, also known as the Battle of Boteler's Ford, took place September 19–20, 1862, at Boteler's Ford along the Potomac River, during the Maryland campaign of the American Civil War. After the Battle of Antietam on September 17, General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia withdrew across the Potomac.
The replica is housed in a small building behind the Entler Hotel. For a time, there was an annual regatta in Shepherdstown in early October in honor of Rumsey. The bridge across the Potomac to Maryland is named after Rumsey, as is the James Rumsey Technical Institute [9] in Hedgesville, West Virginia, and Rumsey Road in Columbia, Maryland. [10]