No rights, no duties: or, Slaveholders, as such, have no rights; slave...
Letter from Hon. Henry Wilson, dated Natick, Mass., Dec. 27, 1859, p. 31-36. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
John Brown : an address - African American Perspectives Materials
Douglass, in a highly personal speech, praises John Brown as a real hero of the abolitionist cause and seeks to promote a better understanding of the raid upon Harper's Ferry. Ends with a few words about Brown'... More
![One of locks round the Falls of the Potomac canalling [sic] to Harpers Ferry - projected & executed by Genl. Washington in early life as surveyor](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4MjgvMDEvMDEvb25lLW9mLWxvY2tzLXJvdW5kLXRoZS1mYWxscy1vZi10aGUtcG90b21hYy1jYW5hbGxpbmctc2ljLXRvLWhhcnBlcnMtZmVycnktMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/32/webp "One of locks round the Falls of the Potomac canalling [sic] to Harpers Ferry - projected & executed by Genl. Washington in early life as surveyor")
One of locks round the Falls of the Potomac canalling [sic] to Harpers...
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Storer College, Anthony Hall, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson Coun...
Significance: From 1881 to 1955, Anthony Hall served as the main building for Harpers Ferry's Storer College, a historically black school founded in 1867 by missionaries of the Freewill Baptist Church. In addit... More
Storer College, Lewis Anthony Library, Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, Jeffe...
Significance: Currently recognized by the National Park Service (NPS) as the "Lewis Anthony Building," this two-story stone building was an integral part of Storer College and its evolution as an educational in... More
Gerard B. Wager Building, Shenandoah & Potomac Streets, Harpers Ferry,...
Significance: The building was erected in the 1830's and is important as a landmark in the immediate vicinity of the capture of John Brown in 1859. In present day Harpers Ferry, the building lends considerably... More
White Hall, Potomac Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
Significance: This building was erected in 1839 by William and Samuel B. Anderson and Dr. George B. Stephenson on land which was originally part of the Wager Six Acre Reservation. The Wagers were descendants of... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
Samuel Annin House, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County...
Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, architectural drawing, building plan, or design, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Interpretive Design Center, 67 Mather Place, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson ...
Survey number: HABS WV-305 Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Storer College, Brackett Hall, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
Survey number: HABS WV-277-D Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, General Views, Shenandoah Stre...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-74 Survey number: HABS WV-224
Shenandoah Pulp Mill, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson Coun...
Public domain photograph - historical image of West Virginia, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Storer College, Mosher Hall, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
Survey number: HABS WV-277-B Public domain photograph of a house, residential property, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
William Anderson House, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson Co...
Significance: The building was erected in 1838-39. Between 1839 and 1861 the first floor was a Dry Goods Store and the upper floors were used as a residence. This building is located in the block of structure... More
Paymaster's Quarters, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
Significance: Prominently located on the eastern crest of Camp Hill at the head of a row of four residences for Armory officials, the Paymaster's Quarters has survived innumerable structural changes. First ere... More
Paymaster's Quarters, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
Significance: Prominently located on the eastern crest of Camp Hill at the head of a row of four residences for Armory officials, the Paymaster's Quarters has survived innumerable structural changes. First ere... More
Paymaster's Quarters, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
Significance: Prominently located on the eastern crest of Camp Hill at the head of a row of four residences for Armory officials, the Paymaster's Quarters has survived innumerable structural changes. First ere... More
Potomac Power Plant, On West Virginia Shore of Potomac River, about 1 ...
Significance: The Potomac Power Plant was an innovative small hydroelectric facility that operated from 1899 to 1991, originally as part of a wood pulp mill (built 1888), and solely as a power house after a fir... More
Potomac Power Plant, On West Virginia Shore of Potomac River, about 1 ...
Significance: The Potomac Power Plant was an innovative small hydroelectric facility that operated from 1899 to 1991, originally as part of a wood pulp mill (built 1888), and solely as a power house after a fir... More
John G. Wilson Building, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson C...
Significance: The John G. Wilson Building is one of several two-and-a-half or three-story masonry buildings which were constructed in Harpers Ferry in the 1810s-30s. Combining both commercial and residential t... More
John G. Wilson Building, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson C...
Significance: The John G. Wilson Building is one of several two-and-a-half or three-story masonry buildings which were constructed in Harpers Ferry in the 1810s-30s. Combining both commercial and residential t... More
Masonic Hall, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
Significance: Like many earlier nineteenth-century structures in Harpers Ferry, the Masonic Hall Building was originally conceived by Philip Coons to house commercial stores on the first floor with dwelling qua... More
Masonic Hall, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
Significance: Like many earlier nineteenth-century structures in Harpers Ferry, the Masonic Hall Building was originally conceived by Philip Coons to house commercial stores on the first floor with dwelling qua... More
The curious adventures, painful experience, and laughable difficulties...
The writer's travels, beginning at Baltimore, were largely if not entirely in the state of Maryland; no other localities are named. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site and on the ... More
The curious adventures, painful experience, and laughable difficulties...
The writer's travels, beginning at Baltimore, were largely if not entirely in the state of Maryland; no other localities are named. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site and on the ... More
National Guard, Harper's Ferry, W.Va
Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is available ... More
Jefferson Rocks, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National P... More
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, West Virginia
Bird's-eye view. Relief shown by shading and landform drawings. "*GPO: 1992--312-248/40153. Reprint 1992." Panel title. Title at upper left: Harpers Ferry. Includes text, descriptive index to points of interest... More
John Brown : an address - African American Perspectives Materials
Douglass, in a highly personal speech, praises John Brown as a real hero of the abolitionist cause and seeks to promote a better understanding of the raid upon Harper's Ferry. Ends with a few words about Brown'... More
Abraham Lincoln papers: Series 1. General Correspondence. 1833-1916: D...
Telegram concerning military situation at Harpers Ferry
No rights, no duties: or, Slaveholders, as such, have no rights; slave...
Letter from Hon. Henry Wilson, dated Natick, Mass., Dec. 27, 1859, p. 31-36. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
High Street Wall, 100 Block of High Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson C...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N156 Survey number: HALS WV-5 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000041, 79002584
No rights, no duties: or, Slaveholders, as such, have no rights; slave...
Letter from Hon. Henry Wilson, dated Natick, Mass., Dec. 27, 1859, p. 31-36. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
No rights, no duties: or, Slaveholders, as such, have no rights; slave...
Letter from Hon. Henry Wilson, dated Natick, Mass., Dec. 27, 1859, p. 31-36. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
John Brown : an address - African American Perspectives Materials
Douglass, in a highly personal speech, praises John Brown as a real hero of the abolitionist cause and seeks to promote a better understanding of the raid upon Harper's Ferry. Ends with a few words about Brown'... More
John Brown : an address - African American Perspectives Materials
Douglass, in a highly personal speech, praises John Brown as a real hero of the abolitionist cause and seeks to promote a better understanding of the raid upon Harper's Ferry. Ends with a few words about Brown'... More
The Natick resolution; or, Resistance to slaveholders, the right and d...
Also available in digital form.
No rights, no duties: or, Slaveholders, as such, have no rights; slave...
Letter from Hon. Henry Wilson, dated Natick, Mass., Dec. 27, 1859, p. 31-36. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Morrell House, Columbia & Fillmore Streets, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson C...
Significance: Originally constructed in 1857-58, the Morrell House was designed by Superintendent Henry W. Clowe for the Paymaster's Clerk. Originally, the Morrell House was identical to its neighbor, the resi... More
Bank of Harpers Ferry & Bank Annex, Shenandoah & High Streets, Harpers...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-20 Survey number: HABS WV-152
Virginius Island Waterpowered Mill Complex, North bank of Shenandoah R...
Significance: Virginius Island is significant because it is representative of nineteenth-century water-powered industry, the type which initially kindled America's Industrial Revolution. The Island's first ind... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
The Life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Br...
On cover: New edition--with additions. John Brown was tried in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County for treason, for conspiring with slaves to produce insurrection, and for murder. Also available in digital fo... More
John C. Unseld Building, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson C...
Significance: The building was erected in the 1830's and is important as a landmark in the immediate vicinity of the capture of John Brown in 1859. In present day Harpers Ferry, the building lends considerably... More
Samuel Annin House, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County...
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Bollman Bridge, Spanning Potomac River at H...
Significance: Wendel Bollman's "suspension truss" patented in 1852 was the first iron bridge widely utilized by a railroad. Employing cast iron tension members, it was constructed over virtually every Baltimor... More
Shenandoah Pulp Mill, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson Coun...
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Roeder Store, Potomac Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-28 Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2 Survey number: HABS WV-223 Building/structure dates: 1856 Initial Construction
Roeder House, Northeast corner of High Street & Hog Alley, Harpers Fer...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-27 Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1 Survey number: HABS WV-174 Building/structure dates: 1848 Subsequent Work Build... More
Armorer's Dwelling House, Northwest side of Shanandoah Street, 400' we...
Significance: The Armorer's Dwelling House was constructed sometime after 1821, on land belonging to the U.S. Armory at Harpers Ferry. Due to housing shortage in Harpers Ferry, the Armory allowed employees to e... More
Masonic Hall, Shenandoah Street, Harpers Ferry, Jefferson County, WV
Significance: Like many earlier nineteenth-century structures in Harpers Ferry, the Masonic Hall Building was originally conceived by Philip Coons to house commercial stores on the first floor with dwelling qua... More
The curious adventures, painful experience, and laughable difficulties...
The writer's travels, beginning at Baltimore, were largely if not entirely in the state of Maryland; no other localities are named. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site and on the ... More
The curious adventures, painful experience, and laughable difficulties...
The writer's travels, beginning at Baltimore, were largely if not entirely in the state of Maryland; no other localities are named. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site and on the ... More