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...ican American attorney in West Vi1·ginia, helped persuade other Niagara leaders to select Harpers Ferry as the site for their first meeting on Ame1·ican soil. Clifford, who lived nearby in Martinsburg, West Virginia, was also the publisher of a national African American newspaper...
...ere are plans for a two day Christmas Tour of old homes. Florence (Mrs. C .W .) Moore II: Harpers Ferry-Bolivar The Bicentennial project of these two adjacent towns, Harpers Ferry and Bolivar, is the establishment of a public library under a grant to the We t Virginia Library Com...
...ne of the Louisa Comeliu Jack on is ignificant because she set down roots and remained in Harpers Ferry for the next 88 years. She married owned land, built a home, served in a church, and raised children who likewise attended Storer College and resided in Harpers Ferry. Her expe...
...e anything but agreeable. Militia officers were in command/ or some time after we went to Harpers Ferry. At the new organization of the army, all below field officers were reduced to the ranks and some of them were not spared. General Harper commanded at Harpers Ferry under the m...
62 The Magazine of the adult Dennis children remained in Harpers Ferry most of their live , with three buying propertie on Fillmore Street within a block of their parents. In the 1920s Storer was finally accredited as a junior college, and everal of Louisa s grandchildren attende...
• 28 Mag·azine of tl1e term of office and Mr. Joseph Barry of Harpers Ferry was appointed to fill out the unexpired term. Mr. Barry was a native of Irel·and, a graduate of the Un 1 iversity of Dublin, and finally located at Harpers Ferry. At one time he operated a parochial schoo...
...he THE EXECUTION OF EBENEZER COX For Jefferson Countians, any reference to a shoot-out at Harpers Ferry must bring automatically to mind the famous John Brown raid on the United States Armory in October, 1859, followed by the trial and execution of the captured raiders in Charles...
...ct on Charles and his tamily in 1861 and at Christmas he gave cash presents to 21 slaves. Harpers Ferry, when held by the Federals, was regarded by slaves as 'Freedom'. In March and April 1862 most ot'the tamily's slaves left. Their values ranged t'rom $1200 tor young adult males...
...omac Rivers, with legal title under Lord Fairfax's grant from the Crown. He established a ferry, thereby giving the village its name. In 1775, he selected this high rock ledge as the site for a home. Six years passed before its completion, because workmen were called to serve in ...
28 The Magazine of the HAWTHORNE AT HARPERS FERRY To list, anthologize, and discuss the travel narratives pertaining to Harpers Ferry would require no inconsiderable volume, because for two hundred years that village has been the goal of excursionists ranging from Washington Irvi...
...uglas, a Storer College Trustee, gazed out over his audience and looked into the Harper's Ferry Gap. His mind returned to the day twenty-two years . . . . .,.. . ~ ~-- ~ • v, , ..... ,;,; '· "';'.~/. .. ,,~• «.-~ •• ._~V. -~-~~ "'...V--: • ., ,,:,,;--.:' "" --~--.. ~" ~. ' .. ~~ ...
...N COUNTY COURT HOUSE: See 24th Tour, 1979. 13. WHITE PILLARS Location: Washington Street, Harpers Ferry, opposite the Harpers Ferry Town Park. White Pillars, named for the hand-carved pillars on the front porch, is a four-story brick house located opposite the bandstand on Washin...
...l arsenal nestled between the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers at Harper's Ferry, Virginia. Not surprisingly, President Washington used both rivers to justify his choice. First, in the 18th century, water was the principal source of power used in manufacturing. Riv...
22 The Magazine of the OLD SCHOOLS OF HARPERS FERRY AND BOLIVAR (Read by Mrs. E. E. Ross before the Harpers Ferry Woman's Club in 1947. This paper has not been previously published.) As far back as Oct. 27, 1824, the HARPER'S FERRY FREE PRESS, published at Harpers Ferry, Va., car...
...ganized the Bloo 1mery Mills to n1·ake iron on F1ir fax's lands, ''Sha11non'dale," nea,r Harpers Ferry, but it doe~ no't appear that Washing·ton joined t'hen1; perhaps in co11se quence of ;at visi't to the site on M,ay 9th, fallowing·. There persists a traditio11 that Wa.s1l1in...
...ary features is beautifully situated atop Bolivar Heights. It offers a commanding view of Harpers Ferry, as well as Loudoun Heights in Virginia and Maryland Heights in Maryland. Planned by owners Marilynn and Mark Swenson to take advantage of the natural setting, this new cedar a...
...onnected Georgetown to Cumberland, Maryland ever been built? John Brown selected Harper's Ferry as the starting point for his campaign to free enslaved men and women because it afforded easy access to the rest of Virginia, a slave state, and because of the United States Musket Fa...
...of the The first was fortuitou ly tied to the second. Congress decided not to rebuild the Harpers Ferry National Armory and Arsenal, which had been destroyed during the war. Four brick mansions for1nerly occupied by armory officers at vacant in the Upper Town section of Harpers F...
40 Magazine of the FROM OLD HARPERS FERRY NEWSPAPERS Harpers Ferry Free Press, Vol. IV, Oct. 6, 1824 NOTICE is hereby given, that a petition will be presented to the Legislature of Virginia, at their next ssssion, for authority to lay off and establish a town, adjoining Harpers F...
...all from those who are disposed to patroniZP, him. Nov. 9, 1837. I. N. CAR,'l'E:R, Agent. Harpers-Ferry Hotel, ISABELLA FITZSIMMONS respectfully informs her friends and the public, that she still con tinues business at this Establishmen, and will 1be thankful for calls from her ...
.... . .. .. .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . Vol. XXIIl, Harper, Robert, Founder of Harpers Ferry Vol. I, Harpers Ferry Arsenal ...................................... Vol. II, Harpers Ferry in 1707, Traders settle at .... Vol. v-11-1, Hawthorne, athanlel, at Harpers Ferry ....
...l. This entire area was sunken, indicative of a burial. As I had little time remaining in Harpers Ferry in which to assist Mr. Perry with the investigation, I recommended that he investigate the local library records for data pertinent to the Washingtons' burials. We decided that...
...f the world." he fir t a ualt came, however quicker and clo er than anyone dared imagine. Harpers Ferry. During the damp chilled night of October 16 1859 John Brown and hi ar1r1 of 21 truck a blow de igned to end la very in the South. The in urgent ucceeded in capturing the Harpe...
...April 26 - 27, 1980 1. THE RAGO HOUSE Location: Comer of Washington and McDowell Streets, Harpers Ferry. The brick home on Camp Hill was a dwelling built by the Federal Government in 1833-34 for a Harpers Ferry Armory official and his family. Plans were drawn up by Armory Superin...
...aracter of an old house. Shown by members of the Garden Department of the Woman's Club of Harpers Ferry and assisted by the Shannondale Garden Club. 4. THE BANDSTAND Location: Comer of Washington and Gilmore Streets, Harpers Ferry. About a hundred years ago, this little hexagonal...
... Club. 8. HOME OF COLONEL AND MRS. MARTIN WILLIAMS SHUEY Location: 740 Washington Street, Harpers Ferry. By Harpers Ferry standards, this charming four square with large wrap around front porch and second floor back porch is relatively new-cele brating 70 years in 1993. It sits...
...d to ascertain the specific offenses for which he was tried and executed. The attack upon Harpers Ferry, Virginia according to the confe sion of John E. Cook, a co-conspirator with Brown, and a captain in his forces, who was also captured, tried and executed, was planned by Brown...
88 The Magazine of the John Brown"s Men Who Escaped From Harpers Fe by Bob O'Connor Osborne P. Anderson Owen Brown John E.Cook Barclay Coppoc Albert Hazlett Francis J. Merriam Charles P. Tidd Of all the publications over the last 150 years to address John Brown and his raid on Ha...
...hree principal permanent stations will suffice and that these ought to be Springfield and Harpers Ferry which are already chosen, and the vicinity of Rocky Mount on the Wateree, in South Carolina .... that near Harpers Ferry it is well known possesses extraordinary advantages for...
J ff r on o u n t }' H i tori a I o i et)' Harpers Ferry. 3 years and is reported: on roll for Mar & Apr 62, present same to Aug. 31. 62. Sept & Oct. 62 absent with leave & Nov. & Dec. 62. absent 53 Paroled Jan & Feb. 63. Present same to Aug. 31, 64 Rolls from Aug. 31, 64 to Feb....
...ths are, as given below, to wit: (Blanche Augusta Tacey born September 13, 1869 living at Harpers Ferry, West Va. crossed out) Laura W. Tacey, born September 4, 1872, living at Harpers Ferry West Va She further declares that she has not abandoned the support of any one of the chi...
...her press its case on the chool district. An 1872 report counted 58 Black children in the Harpers Ferry District. Their only means of education was provided by benevolent organizations including Storer, which temporarily opened a primary department. 18 At the time of the 1870 cen...
38 The Magazine of the In the reduction of Harpers Ferry Jackson and Hill had the help of McLaws and Walker. McLaws made his contribution by taking possession of Maryland Heights on September 13. He had left the Confederate forces at South Mountain on September 11 and crossed Ple...
... the Civil War, full reports on Gen. Lockwood's career have been drawn for the records at Harpers Ferry National Monunient. Lockwood was ordered to the Department of the Potomac August 24, 1861, with the rank of Major-General. On September 9, 1861, as Brigadier-General, he was as...
...Cotinty f·or the building of the Antietam Iron W·orks.'' (See ''The Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry," Vol. II, this Magazine.) Antietam Furnace and Orebank are also connected by place n·ames -a toll chart of the C. & 0. Canal reproduced •by the Park Service gives Brien's Ferr...
...ained unexplored for y a1~ , had it not been for the search fo1 .. the fabulous lake. The Harpers Fe1·ry Coinpany The young men of Harpers Ferry organized a com pany to go the Red River route under the direction of olonel Whiting·, who had been a Texas ranger. The number of pe1,...
...RIC HOMES XI LOCKWOOD HOUSE (Payniaste1·'s Quarters) By M1·s. E. W. Fairbairn, Historian, Harpers Ferry National Monument 11 The Lockwood House at Harpers Ferry was originally built in 1847-1848, by order of the War Department, as quarters for the Armory Paymaster. The site chose...
90 The Magazine of the bridge standing. Harpers Ferry can be battered to pieces from all sides at once:' And this is exactly what happened when Dixon Miles' Union troops retreated off of Maryland Heights on September 13, 1862, just two days be fore the federal garrison surrender...
...................................................... vol. VII, p. 23 Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry .................... vol. II, p. 4 Bedinger Family, The .................................................. Vol. IX, p. 41 Bedinger, Henry, Letter to ..............................
...ing the Potomac near the mouth of the Monocacy. A. P. Hill's division crossed at Noland's Ferry, just above the mouth of the Monocacy between September 4 and 7, and Longstreet crossed at White's Ford to arrive at Frederick City, Mary land, on September 7, 1862. At Frederick the ...
...od ........................................................ . H arper, Robert, Founder of Harpers Ferry ... . Harpers Ferry Arsenal . . . . .. .. .. ............................... . Ha1 ·pers Ferry in 1707, Traders settle at ......... . Pa\vthorne, Nathaniel, at Harpers Ferry .....
... the owner. 3. HARPER HOUSE: See 39th Tour, 1994 4. ST. PETER'S CATHOLIC CHURCH Location: Harpers Ferry, on Public Walk above Stone steps, past Harper House. St. Peter's Church was the third church to be erected in Harpers Ferry and was the only church at the Ferry not on governm...
... led his band of raiders from his advance base at the Kennedy farm, about five miles from Harpers Ferry on the Sharpsburg road. Left behind to guard the base camp were Owen Brown, Barclay Coppoc, and Francis J. Meriam. These men Brown regarded as the weakest of his team. Owen's a...
...d with a letter for Colo. Parker, informing him that his Regt would be hutted at Harper's Ferry, and requesting that they should be ordered there without delay . . . . Colo. Parker's encampment consists of two lines of huts for the Soldiers at 12 feet distant. The front line cons...
... step to increa e potential financing option for local . He established the first of four Harpers Ferry and Bolivar Building Associations, designed to finance homes in an era when bank loans were generally available only to the wealthy. Members sub cribed to this mutual aid organ...
...s Green. Their mission was to capture slave owners and their slaves and bring them to the Ferry. The first slave owner captured was Colonel Lewis Washington, the great-grand nephew of George Washington. As they approached the house, Captain Stevens told Leary and Green to guard t...
...nth century, Merritt Smith described the rural community and cultural customs in Harper's Ferry as obstacles that impeded the development of the Armory. This romantic abode was sheltered from the greater outside world. Little more that a crossing point for travelers along the Gre...
iet 17 -------------------------ti 11 r in. nd hu tl1 re "''a thru t upon Harpers Ferry the • i ti ti 11 f in h __ ene of the fir t act of .an a ful drama, t h n t in u n' ' f ~ hi 11 , a a time th a t tried. m en 's sou 1 s' ' ~ nd tl1 11d f , hi h 111ark d the pa in,g of the ol...
...ssion as Military Store keeper and Paymaster of the United States Arn1ory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry, and that he served in that position until May 12, 1847, when his resignation became effective. This is a lost interlude i11 his career, now re constructed in part from brief ...
Jefferson County Historical Society 39 CENTENNIAL AT HARPERS FERRY Following the custom of recording the county's out standing histori,cal event of the year, note is herewith made of the Centennial Observance of the John Brown Raid. Widely publicized, the four-day affair, Octobe...
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