Harpers Ferry

Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States, in the lower Shenandoah Valley. The population was 285 at the 2020 census. Situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, where the U.S. states of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia meet, it is the easternmost town in West Virginia.

Originally named Harper's Ferry after an 18th-century ferry owner, the town was stripped of its apostrophe in 1891 by the United States Board on Geographic Names. It gained fame in 1859 when abolitionist John Brown led a raid on the U.S. armory. During the American Civil War, the town became the northernmost point of Confederate-controlled territory, and changed hands several times due to its strategic importance.An antebellum manufacturing and transportation hub, the town has long since…