The National Park Service is set to demolish five deteriorating structures at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, ...

He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled his arms and waited for his "army" to arrive. The delay had an adverse effect on Brown's plan.

Brown had been convicted of multiple murders, treason against Virginia, and inciting a slave revolt in relation to his raid on an armory in Harpers Ferry. John Brown was an abolitionist who ...

He led a raid at Harpers Ferry with the goal of igniting a revolt against slavery — and he was executed for treason. Most people know that part of the story well. What happened after ...

While Brown was not the first to try to stir up a slave revolt – 1843 famed abolitionist Henry Garnett ... touched all bases in explaining who John Brown was, why he came to Harpers Ferry, what ...

He led a raid at Harpers Ferry with the goal of igniting a revolt against slavery, and he was executed for treason. Owen, around 35 at the time, escaped Harpers Ferry and lived to see the end of ...

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 ...