Harpers Ferry National Historic Park

P.O. Box 65
Harpers Ferry, WV, 25425
304-535-6298

URL : http://www.nps.gov/hafe

overview : Over 2, 300 acres in the states of West Virginia, Virginia and Maryland. - This setting has witnessed several historical events and been visited by prominent individuals such as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Meriwether Lewis, John Brown, "Stonewall" Jackson, and Frederick Douglass. - The park has been a part of the first successful American railroad, the largest surrender of Federal troops during the Civil War, John Brown's attack on slavery and the education of former slaves in one of the earliest integrated schools in the United States.

topics : west, virginia, civil, war, african, American, abolitionists