Harpers Ferry
or Harper's Ferry
a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
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How to use Harpers Ferry in a sentence
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.
Teen dies trying to save mother from flood; tornado reported as Ida remnants arrive in D.C. region | Jasmine Hilton, Justin Wm. Moyer, Michael Ruane | September 2, 2021 | Washington PostThey 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.
“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.
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.
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.
William B. Taliaferro was the commander of the Virginia Militia at Harpers Ferry.
When Robert E. Lee Met John Brown and Saved the Union | Michael Korda | May 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe was a recruit, who came to us at Harpers Ferry, in the winter of 1863-64.
History of the Twelfth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry | William HewittUnder the influence of the really great Latrobe, an iron span of 124 feet was built in 1852 at Harpers Ferry.
The Modern Railroad | Edward HungerfordOn the morning of July 17 we broke camp and started for Harpers Ferry, thirty miles distant.
A Narrative of Service with the Third Wisconsin Infantry | Julian Wisner HinkleyWe 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.
History of the Twelfth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry | William HewittOur regiment by daylight that morning crossed over to Harpers Ferry.
History of the Twelfth West Virginia Volunteer Infantry | William Hewitt
British Dictionary definitions for Harper's Ferry
/ (ˈhɑːpəz) /
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)
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Cultural definitions for Harpers Ferry
The place now in West Virginia where the militant abolitionist John Brown was captured in 1859, after he seized a federal arsenal there.
The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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