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Har·pers Ferry (här′pərz)
town in W.Va., at the juncture of the Potomac & Shenandoah rivers: site of the U.S. arsenal captured by John Brown (1859): pop. 300
Etymology: the site of a ferry owned (c. 1747) by R. Harper
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