He had been ready in 1858 to launch his war -- he had both the men and the ... He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled his arms and waited ...

While there were many battles during the Civil War at Harpers Ferry, the most famous came just beforehand – and many believe ...

Spotlight on an original weapon that was used by the supporters of the abolitionist John Brown in his historic raid on Harper’s Ferry in 1859 ... before the Civil War, if you were anti-slavery ...

In 1847, Yankee Sullivan, then the pretender to the American Heavyweight Champion's Belt, and Bob Caunt, of London, England, went seven rounds at an outdoor site on the Potomac River near the mouth of ...

In one fateful night, John Brown brought the country closer to Civil War (Video: Meredith Bragg). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Day ...

As a vital early American town, Harpers Ferry has been the site of a number of historical events. It was a point of supply for Meriwether Lewis’s Corps of Discovery, the site of John Brown’s ...