Harpers Ferry National Historical Park tells the story of people and events that influenced the course of our nation's history. This site witnessed the first successful application of interchangeable manufacture, the arrival of the first successful American railroad, John Brown's attack on slavery, the largest surrender of Federal troops during the Civil War, and the education of former slaves ...

Extensive site dealing with the raid on Harper's Ferry and the surrounding events.

Welcome toThe Kennedy Farmhouse Abolitionist John Brown's staging area for raid on Harpers Ferry ...

John Brown's Fort 1859 (75K JPG) c.1862 (47K JPG) c.1885 (46K JPG) 1896 (43K JPG) c.1915 (78K JPG) 1968 (68K JPG) 1985 (59K JPG) 1995 (73K JPG) Click on a thumbnail to retrieve a larger version of each image THE STRUCTURE WE NOW CALL JOHN BROWN'S FORT WAS ERECTED IN 1848 as the Armory s fire engine and guard house. The building was described in a June 30, 1848, Armory report: An engine and ...

John Brown's Raid In the winter of 1857-58, John Brown, who had been a leader in and a promoter of lawlessness during the troubles in Kansas--undertaken, as he himself confessed, for the purpose of inflaming the public mind on the subject of slavery, that he might perfect organizations to bring about servile insurrections in the slave States----collected a number of young men in that territory, ...

This site offers contemporary and historic information concerning Black America and the Underground Railroad.

JOHN BROWN RAID PHOTOS/ILLUSTRATIONS A staunch abolitionist, John Brown led a raid on the United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry (Jefferson County) in October 1859, in an attempt to establish a colony for freed slaves in the mountains of Maryland. Brown was captured and hanged for treason in Charles Town on December 2, 1859. John Brown (1800-1859) Engraving by J. C. Buttre. United ...

JOHN BROWN'S GHOST Harper's Ferry, West Virginia To the slaves of the south, John Brown was an unrealized savior... to those men who opposed him, this face was the last vision they ever saw. (Left) John Brown in his earlier days Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery...... John Brown, 1837 Along the streets of Harper's Ferry, West ...

John Brown (1800-1859) John Brown was an American abolitionist, born in Connecticut and raised in Ohio. He felt passionately and violently that he must personally fight to end slavery. In 1856, in retaliation for the sack of Lawrence, he led the murder of five proslavery men on the banks of the Pottawatamie River. He stated that he was an instrument in the hand of God. Brown did not end there.