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Allstadt operated an ordinary (a tavern) in the house, and a tollgate on the Harpers Ferry-Charles Town Turnpike, while he resided farther down the road in a stone house. The house was enlarged by the Allstadts c. 1830. The house remained in the family until the death of John Thomas Allstadt in 1923, the last survivor of John Brown's Raid. [2]
They were only 30 miles (48 km) from Harpers Ferry, much closer than the next closest medical school, the Richmond Medical School, and there was a train every day. Hearing of the ten killed during the raid, some students went down to Harpers Ferry in search of bodies. An anatomy faculty member may have accompanied the students.
According to the Indiana Gazette, Hazlett participated in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.Summarizing the event, the newspaper said, Fights over the very concept of slavery itself — the ownership of people and forced servitude — began well before the start of the war in 1861, and arguably the most notorious was the October 1859 attack led by John Brown on the federal arsenal and rifle ...
Raid on Harpers Ferry John Anthony Copeland Jr. (August 15, 1834 – December 16, 1859) was born free in Raleigh, North Carolina , one of the eight children born to John Copeland Sr. and his wife Delilah Evans, free mulattos , who married in Raleigh in 1831.
Sarah Brown in 1912, recreating the conditions of their trip to California. (Dress and covered wagon are replicas.). Mary Ann Day Brown (April 15, 1816 – February 29, 1884) was the second wife of abolitionist John Brown, leader of a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia (since 1863, West Virginia), which attempted to start a campaign of liberating enslaved people in the South.
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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 Battle of Harpers Ferry, September 12–15, 1862; General Robert E. Lee's Gettysburg Campaign of 1863. The Second Battle of Winchester, June 13–15, 1863; General Early's Valley Campaign and Washington, D.C. Raid of 1864. The Battle of Snicker's Ferry, July 17–18, 1864; The Battle of Rutherford's Farm, July 20, 1864