HarpersFerry

HarpersFerry
Har·pers Ferry (härʹpərz)
A locality of extreme northeast West Virginia. It was the scene of John Brown's rebellion (1859), in which he briefly seized the U.S. arsenal here. The town changed hands a number of times during the Civil War.

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