His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded ... a huge complex of buildings that contained 100,000 muskets and rifles. Brown tried to persuade his ...
HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. — The state Fire Marshal’s Office says a 73-year-old man died in house fire that took place in Jefferson County Sunday. The victim was found in a home along Wide River ...
In 1847, Yankee Sullivan, then the pretender to the American Heavyweight Champion's Belt, and Bob Caunt, of London, England, went seven rounds at an outdoor site on the Potomac River near the mouth of ...
His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded ... a huge complex of buildings that contained 100,000 muskets and rifles. Brown tried to persuade his ...
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 ...