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John Brown's Fort was initially built in 1848 for use as a guard and fire engine house by the federal Harpers Ferry Armory, in Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia). An 1848 military report described the building as "An engine and guard-house 35 1/2 x 24 feet, one story brick, covered with slate, and having copper gutters and down ...
On June 6, 2016, the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park was featured on the third 2016 release of the America the Beautiful Quarters series. In the middle of the quarter is a depiction of John Brown's Fort, while the outside has the year (2016), location (Harpers Ferry), and the state (West Virginia).
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry [nb 1] was an effort by abolitionist John Brown, from October 16 to 18, 1859, to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states by taking over the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia). It has been called the dress rehearsal for the American Civil War. [3]: 5
Harpers Ferry Armory in 1862. The Harpers Ferry Armory, more formally known as the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, was the second federal armory created by the United States government; the first was the Springfield Armory. It was located in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, which since 1863 has been part of West Virginia.
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.
The Heyward Shepherd monument. The Heyward Shepherd monument is a monument in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, dedicated in 1931.It commemorates Heyward [a] Shepherd (1825 – October 17, 1859), a free black man who was the first person killed during John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.
The house remained in the family until the death of John Thomas Allstadt in 1923, the last survivor of John Brown's Raid. [2] The property was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [1] It was purchased by the American Battlefield Trust, which in 2019 donated it to the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. [3]
Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, in the lower Shenandoah Valley.The town's population was 269 at the 2020 United States census.Situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, where Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia meet, it is the easternmost town in West Virginia as well as its lowest point above sea level.