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“The thing I’ll miss most from home is my mom’s stuffing, it’s my favorite,” said Clayton Stock-Friends, a young member of the West Virginia National Guard from Harpers Ferry, sporting a red beret and sunglasses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
The Washington Post reported that Trump’s order would change signage and information at the Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, various Civil War battlefields, and other historic sites.
From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2025
He was the man who, in 1859, led his sons and fellow abolitionists, Black and white, on a raid of the federal armory at Harpers Ferry in Virginia, now in West Virginia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
As a solo director, Albert has worked on the hilarious Raid on Harpers Ferry parody "Good Lord Bird," "Alpha" and now, "The Continental: From the World of John Wick."
From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2023
Harpers Ferry is an interesting place for a number of reasons.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
Harper's Ferry, a national park and nearby tourist draw, has been kept open with state money.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2025
An enslaved Black man frees himself and later fights alongside abolitionist John Brown at Harper’s Ferry in the 2020 historical drama “Emperor.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2021
During its annual Explorer’s Festival, Distillery Lane, which is located between Frederick and Harper’s Ferry, becomes an ambassador for these lesser-known apples.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 3, 2019
On the night of October 16, 1859, John Brown and 18 black and white comrades slipped across the Potomac River from Maryland and seized the federal weapons factory at Harper’s Ferry.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Later in the day they heard that the United States Government Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry had been seized.
From "Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad" by Ann Petry
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