His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded ... of buildings that contained 100,000 muskets and rifles. Brown tried to persuade his friend Frederick ...

SANDY HOOK, Md., Saturday, Aug. 31, 1861. We have here, occasionally, visits from some of the few citizens left at Harper's Ferry. They report that there is a Home Guard of 85 mounted men ("secesh ...

The rifle was his lifeline ... issued the first examples of the Model 1803 Harper’s Ferry Musket, a .54 caliber flintlock ...

A new National Park Service report shows that 427,317 visitors to Harpers Ferry NHP in 2023 spent $23.8 million in ...

“He just had this way of getting you to look at things,” said Mary Yakush, a writer and editor at the National Park Service’s Harpers Ferry Center for Media Services in West Virginia. Hoping to draw ...

Then, drive to Telluride with stops in Rifle and Grand Junction along the way ... Maryland: The Best Sightseeing Road Trip (Assateague to Harper’s Ferry) Maryland’s unique shape made it hard to plan a ...

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Rifle scope designs follow trends in the rifles that they’ll be paired with. The 3-9×42 scope, one of the best all-around hunting optics mounted on generations of bolt-action rifles, held sway until ...

His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded ... of buildings that contained 100,000 muskets and rifles. Brown tried to persuade his friend Frederick ...

HARPER's FERRY, Friday, Aug. 19, 1864. The position of the Army of Western Virginia is unchanged, except that it is now nearer Charlestown. The trains are all arriving in this vicinity ...

HARPERS FERRY, W Va. — A new National Park Service report shows that 427,317 visitors to Harpers Ferry National Historical Park (NHP) in 2023 spent $23.8 million in communities near the park.

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 ...