PD By the summer of 1859, Brown had finalized his plans. His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded by mountains, tucked at the bottom of a ravine created ...

But only a handful showed up. Library of Congress Harpers Ferry, Virginia, lay sleeping on the night of October 16, 1859, as 19 heavily armed men stole down mist-shrouded bluffs along the Potomac ...

General Dynamics-NASSCO has been awarded nearly $64 million to repair and modernize the USS Harpers Ferry, a 610-foot amphibious dock landing ship that is used to transport Marines and vehicles ...

PD By the summer of 1859, Brown had finalized his plans. His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded by mountains, tucked at the bottom of a ravine created ...

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 ...