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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (763 words) |
 | Harpers Ferry and Bolivar are wedged between the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers and bounded on the west by Bolivar Heights. |
| Situated on the Maryland side of the river, the canal connected the ferry with markets in Washington, D.C. A year later, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad arrived and with it the final piece in a political-economic network that made Harpers Ferry and the recently founded community of Bolivar important to the nation's future. |
| He saw the ferry as the place to capture arms with which to equip an army and free the slaves of the Deep South. |
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