At the precipice of the 4.5-mile Maryland Heights Overlook Trail ... Peek right and see Virginia. Spin around and you’re face-to-face with Harpers Ferry, the tiny town at the center of it ...

The entire state of West Virginia deserves to be in people ... People often come to Harpers Ferry for its history—it was a key location during the Civil War and a favorite spot of Thomas ...

He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled ... was taken to Charlestown, Virginia (now Charles Town, West Virginia), along with the other captives.

Perhaps the most well-known destination in West Virginia, Harpers Ferry is more than a quaint 19th-century town. It's a National Historic Park with Civil War sites including battlefields ...

(WBOY) — Spring-like weather has arrived in West ... from Harpers Ferry National Historic Park in Jefferson County, across the Shenandoah River, along the Virginia line and to an overlook.

PD By the summer of 1859, Brown had finalized his plans. His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded by mountains, tucked at the bottom of a ravine created ...