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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, originally Harpers Ferry National Monument, is located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in and around Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The park includes the historic center of Harpers Ferry, notable as a key 19th-century industrial area and as the scene of John Brown's failed ...
History of Harpers Ferry. Part of a series of presentations from Harpers Ferry National Historical Park’s cultural resource specialist and archaeologist, Darlene Hassler . Call 304-535-6029 or ...
A Harpers Ferry Historical Association publication states that "the John Brown Museum" now houses the original armory gate. It had been taken by Alexander Murphy, who used it as an outer gate to his coal yard and had tried to sell it in 1927. [25] It was donated in 1991 to the National Park Service by Jim Kuhn, a great-great-grandson of the ...
The Harpers Ferry Historic District comprises about one hundred historic structures in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.The historic district includes the portions of the central town not included in Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, including large numbers of early 19th-century houses built by the United States Government for the workers at the Harpers Ferry Armory.
A new National Park Service report shows that 427,317 visitors to Harpers Ferry NHP in 2023 spent $23.8 million in communities near the park.
It consists of several large masses of Harpers shale, [3] piled one upon the other, that overlook the Shenandoah River just prior to its confluence with the Potomac River. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property of the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park on October 15, 1966. [4]
Loudoun Heights is an unincorporated community in Loudoun County, Virginia, near Purcellville and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.It is located in the Between the Hills region of the county along Harpers Ferry Road (VA 671) and is bounded to its northwest and northeast by the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park on the Potomac River.
HARPERS FERRY — National Park Service law enforcement park rangers are investigating what an area Catholic parish priest said is a potential hate crime outside a Harpers Ferry church on Easter ...