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Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
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History of the Area
The story of Harpers Ferry is more than one event, one date, or one individual. It involves a diverse number of people and events that influenced the course of our nations history. Harpers Ferry witnessed the first successful application of interchangeable manufacture, the arrival of the first successful American railroad, John Browns attack on slavery, the largest surrender of Federal troops during the Civil War and
the education of former slaves in one of the earliest integrated schools in the United States.
Let these pages help you learn more about Harpers Ferry. Find out why Thomas Jefferson wrote "The passage of the Patowmac through the Blue Ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in Nature."