From 1800 to the start of the Civil War in 1861, the Harpers Ferry armory produced about 600,000 weapons for the U.S. military until the armory was destroyed by the Confederate Army, Park Ranger ...

In 1848, “John Brown’s Fort” was originally built as the Harpers Ferry Armory fire engine and guard house. The building became a “fort” when abolitionist John Brown and several of his ...

54-caliber pistols to be produced at the Harpers Ferry Armory. At the receiving end of the contract was Joseph Perkin, first superintendent of the Harpers Ferry Armory. Aged 68 in 1805 ...

One of the most significant historical events was when abolitionist John Brown attempted to start an armed revolt of enslaved ...

Brown gathered his men together and set out for Harpers Ferry. At first the raid went like clockwork. They cut telegraph wires, then easily captured the federal armory and arsenal, which was being ...

According to a story in the Frederick New-Post, the house was built in 1790 and was the place where John Brown and his followers met in 1859 before their raid on the Harpers Ferry armory.

On the evening of Oct. 16, 1859, abolitionist John Brown led 21 men down the road to Harpers Ferry in what is today West Virginia. The plan was to take the town's federal armory and, ultimately ...

It wasn’t as easy as signing a contract and cranking out pistols though. The National Armory at Harpers Ferry had a long way to go before it would be in a position to turn out acceptable arms.

It’s hard to do Harpers Ferry wrong, but you’ll inch closer to “right” the more accurately you can summarize John Brown’s armory raid by heart. Read the facts back to yourself over a ...

In fact, Brown’s terrorist attack on the armory and subsequent trial was also “one of the first breaking news stories” of the rapidly developing nation, as millions of readers hung on every ...

Brown gathered his men together and set out for Harpers Ferry. At first the raid went like clockwork. They cut telegraph wires, then easily captured the federal armory and arsenal, which was being ...