With the weather improving over the next few weeks, Shepherdstown is hoping everyone will be getting over cabin fever.

Maryland, and is popular with bike riders and walkers. In 1848, “John Brown’s Fort” was originally built as the Harpers Ferry Armory fire engine and guard house. The building became a ...

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 ...

Harpers Ferry splintered the Democratic Party ... who had made eight secret trips to Maryland's Eastern Shore to lead dozens of slaves north to freedom. Brown was so impressed that he began ...

A bridge with a walking path links West Virginia to Maryland. Harpers Ferry National Historical Park encompasses a large swath of town and offers hiking trails and living history exhibitions.

He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled his arms and waited for his "army" to arrive. The delay had an adverse effect on Brown's plan.

PD By the summer of 1859, Brown had finalized his plans. His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded by mountains, tucked at the bottom of a ravine created ...