:''Harpers Ferry redirects here. For other uses, see Harpers Ferry (disambiguation).'' Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia. It is situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers where the U.S. states of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia meet (...)
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As Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia advanced into Maryland ,Lee expected that the Union garrisons that potentially blocked his supply line in the Shenandoah Valley, at Winchester , Martinsburg ,and Harpers Ferry, would be cut off and abandoned without firing a shot (and, in fact, both Winchester and Martinsburg were evacuated).
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Harpers Ferry KOA ( off US340 west of Harpers Ferry National Park ) [10] 300 tent or trailer sites.
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On August 15, 1906, the Niagara Movement ,led by author and scholar W.E.B. DuBois ,held its first meeting on American soil on the campus of Storer College ,now part of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.
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Historians agree that the Harpers Ferry raid in 1859 escalated tensions that a year later led to secession and the American Civil War.
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Another mountain ridge, the Massanutten, runs down the middle, as does the Shenandoah River.
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