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By Kevin Allen Rappahannock News Staff Writer :0 n tile extreme nortkeast comer of West Virginia 2i« a little kamlet tkat is > ■ _ packed witk kistory, oldtown ckarm anti outdoor opportunities of every kind. Witk a ' population of some 300 people,
^Harpers Feny is kest known lot
ytjfcs past. But tke town, wkick is ||w*dged onto tke side of steep if/kluffs at tke confluence of tke f Potomac and Skenandoak nvet»r 8hIt otter* plenty Harpers Ferry will always i kave a place in kistory kooks because of Jokn Brown's ' ^(Raid, during wkick tke ^^;akolitkmist and kis22- f; man "Provisional Army ■^vof tke United States’* Iff took possession of a VJ&i $ f Armory with the inten- f *• tion of starting a slawa S; uprising on Oct. 16, 859. Militias from tke Wp H -JPistrict of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia conveti on %’yS js£* Ferry, and on Oct. 18 a dozen U.S. Marines kroke % "■ mm the remaining raiders. Brown was ckarged witk conspiring witk slaves to commit treason and murder" and was kanged for bis crimes on Dec. 2, 1859, in Ckarle# | Town, Va. (Welt Virginia did JP not become a separate state . „ t >' •;*, -i Wf. : m
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