Brown gathered his men together and set out for Harpers Ferry. At first the raid went like clockwork. They cut telegraph wires, then easily captured the federal armory and arsenal, which was being ...

Most historians concentrate on the social and historical events caused by the 1859 raid of abolitionist John Brown and his ...

John Brown hoped to end slavery when he raided a federal armory at Harpers Ferry in 1859. His plan failed, but he still changed the course of history. “You can weigh John Brown’s body well enough, but ...

Harpers Ferry encompasses two separate but impossibly ... Near the rivers sits the original armory guard house where in 1859, abolitionist John Brown led a legendary but ultimately unsuccessful ...

The town's legacy encompasses everything from the days of Algonquian and Shawnee people fishing nearby to abolitionist John Brown's 1859 National Armory ... the town of Harpers Ferry is the ...

Brown gathered his men together and set out for Harpers Ferry. At first the raid went like clockwork. They cut telegraph wires, then easily captured the federal armory and arsenal, which was being ...

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 ...