Harpers Ferry

or Harper's Ferry

[ hahr-perz ]

noun

1. a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.

Harper's Ferry

/ ˈhɑːpəz /

noun

1. a village in NE West Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers: site of an arsenal seized by John Brown (1859). Pop: 302 (2003 est)

Harpers Ferry

1. The place now in West Virginia where the militant abolitionist John Brown was captured in 1859, after he seized a federal arsenal there.

Example Sentences

Rising water on the Potomac River threatened the historic downtown of Harpers Ferry, a chronic target for flooding where the Shenandoah River flows into the Potomac, the National Park Service said.

From Washington Post

They are still “considered rare in Maryland and West Virginia,” the Park Service said, adding that the young chick at Harpers Ferry is particularly special because it was the only one of three hatchlings to survive this spring.

From Washington Post

“We have had a lot of years of not getting to this point so we’re absolutely thrilled,” said Mia Parsons, the Park Services’s chief of resources management at Harpers Ferry.

From Washington Post

At Harpers Ferry, they have been known to frequent Maryland Heights, which sits on the Maryland side of the Potomac River near Elk Ridge, as far back as the late 1880s.

From Washington Post

In February, experts noticed a pair were showing “courtship and breeding behaviors,” according to Matt Olear, a peregrine falcon expert and “citizen scientist” for the Park Service who helps to track the falcons at Harpers Ferry.

From Washington Post

William B. Taliaferro was the commander of the Virginia Militia at Harpers Ferry.

From The Daily Beast

He was a recruit, who came to us at Harpers Ferry, in the winter of 1863-64.

From Project Gutenberg

Under the influence of the really great Latrobe, an iron span of 124 feet was built in 1852 at Harpers Ferry.

From Project Gutenberg

On the morning of July 17 we broke camp and started for Harpers Ferry, thirty miles distant.

From Project Gutenberg

We started on our march to Clarksburg in the afternoon, to go by way of Harpers Ferry to take the cars there, to the former place.

From Project Gutenberg

Our regiment by daylight that morning crossed over to Harpers Ferry.

From Project Gutenberg