HARPER’S FERRY

a town in West Virginia, in Jefferson co. It is on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and on a ociation has great historic a with John portance Brown. from It the site of a United States Government foundry, arsenal and armory which, in 1859, was seized by John Byown and a band of a ociates. Brown quickly captured and was executed. government buildings were burned 1864 to prevent their falling into the hands of the Confederates. The Union army, in 1862, surrendered here to the seat of Storer College. Pop. about 1,000.