Harpers Ferry

Harpers Ferry Definition

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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