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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.
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.
English: View of brick buildings in the Lower Town section of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia with Maryland Heights and the B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing in the background. The Mennen's Borated Talcum Toilet Powder advertisement can be seen on the cliff face. Part of the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.
The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [ 1 ] There are 86 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, 2 of which are National Historic Landmarks .
This is a panoramic view of Jefferson Rock (right foreground) and the surrounding river valley. The lower town of Harpers Ferry and the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers appears on the left. The church steeple (also left) belongs to St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church.
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.
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 ...
[4]: 34 In 1837 the Winchester and Potomac Railroad reached Harpers Ferry from the south, and Latrobe joined it to the B&O line using a "Y" span. [4]: 65 John Brown used the B&O bridge at the beginning of his failed attempt to start a slave insurrection in Virginia and further south.