Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, originally Harpers Ferry National Monument, is located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in and around Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. The park includes the historic center of Harpers Ferry, notable as a key 19th-century industrial area and as the scene of John Brown's failed abolitionist uprising. It contains the most visited historic site in the state of West Virginia, John Brown's Fort.
Shenandoah River on left and Potomac River on right merge at Harpers Ferry
Harper's Weekly illustration of U.S. Marines attacking John Brown's "Fort"
John Brown's Fort today
Storer College postcard (1910)
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, in the lower Shenandoah Valley. The town's population was 269 at the 2020 United States census. Situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, where Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia meet, it is the easternmost town in West Virginia.
Aerial view of Harpers Ferry from Maryland Heights at the confluence of the Shenandoah (left) and Potomac rivers
Gravesite of Robert Harper from whom the town takes its name
View of Harpers Ferry from Jefferson Rock in 1854
The same view in 2021