As a vital early American town, Harpers Ferry has been the site of ... s abolitionist raid in 1859, a key Civil War battlefield, and the meeting place for the Niagara Movement, a 1906 gathering of ...
His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded ... were left in a small brick building, the engine house. The next morning, the raiders gazed out on a ...
In one fateful night, John Brown brought the country closer to Civil War (Video: Meredith Bragg). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Day ...
His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded ... were left in a small brick building, the engine house. The next morning, the raiders gazed out on a ...