Harpers Ferry Armory, more formally known as the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, was the second federal armory commissioned by the United States government. It was located in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (then part of Virginia), while the first federal armory was the Springfield Armory located in Springfield, Massachusetts. In many books the town is called “Harper’s Ferry” with an apostrophe.
The national armory has been associated with many prominent historical events throughout the history of the United States. Harpers Ferry National Armory was both an armory and an arsenal.
History
Harpers Ferry
Robert Harper founded the community of Harpers Ferry in the mid-18th century. Robert Harper was born in 1718 in Oxford Township near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Since he was a builder, Harper was asked by a group of Quakers in 1747 to build a meeting house in the Shenandoah Valley near the present site of Winchester, Virginia. Traveling through Maryland on his way to the Shenandoah Valley, Harper proceeded to the area where the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers met. Attracted and amazed by the ample latent waterpower that resided in the rivers and by the strategic location for travel and transport, Harper obtained a patent for 125 acres (0.51km2) of the land in 1751. He built a ferry to cross the Shenandoah River to help pioneers reach their destination in the new western lands. After the creation of the ferry, more people were attracted to the area and it became a transportation hub dotted with flourishing businesses.
The Battle of Harpers Ferry (September 12–15, 1862), a battle in the American Civil War that took place around what is now Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The Battle of Harpers Ferry (September 12–15, 1862), a battle in the American Civil War that took place around what is now Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
HARPERS FERRY, W ... Its gushing natural resources led the former president and wealthy landowner to choose HarpersFerry for a new national armory in 1796 ... If you love history, it lives on at Harpers Ferry, which became a national historic park in 1963.
Brown was a tanner by trade and worked in Kent, Hudson and Akron before attempting to instigate a slave revolt with weapons he planned to capture at the federal armory in HarpersFerry, Virginia (now West Virginia).
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The young woman, Kate Bender, was considered particularly intelligent and alluring ...Fred W. Phelps Sr ... In October 1859, Brown led a 22-man party, which hoped to start a slave revolt as it took over the federal armory at what is now HarpersFerry, W.Va.
... with a group of black and white people on the armory in HarpersFerry, West Virginia in an attempt to get guns and hand them out to enslaved people and begin an insurrection, and it didn’t work.
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He and his growing number of followers resolved to capture the FederalArmory at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia... For the actual raid on Harper’s Ferry, they invited Harriet Tubman to join them but she was ill at the time.
Charles Town, West Virginia, was where state authorities executed the abolitionist John Brown after he led an attack on a federal armory a few miles down the road in HarpersFerry, a pivotal moment in the lead-up to the civil war.
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
30 Jun 2024
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
30 Jun 2024