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Harpers Ferry

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Noun

1. harper's ferry, harpers ferry

a small town in northeastern West Virginia that was the site of a raid in 1859 by the abolitionist John Brown and his followers who captured an arsenal that was located there

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Harpers Ferry

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noun
a village in NE West Virginia, at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers: site of an arsenal seized by John Brown (1859). Pop: 302 (2003 est)

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Harpers Ferry

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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

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Harpers Ferry

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A town of extreme northeast West Virginia at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers. It was the scene of John Brown's rebellion (1859), in which he briefly seized the US arsenal here. The town changed hands a number of times during the Civil War.

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