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Unidentified man stands on a railroad track with the Potomac River behind him, 'Armory building on original site to left'.

1. Harpers Ferry, Va. Before 1861

Color postcard of a ca. 1918 touring car driving next to the the C&O Canal. The Harpers Ferry bridge crossing the confluence of the Potomac and the Shenandoah Rivers is in the background.

2. Driving Along Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Near Harpers Ferry, W. Va.

View from Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, W. Va. showing several buildings on the Storer College campus including 1. Lockwood, 2. Brackett, 3. McDowell Shenandoah (?), 4. Franklin (Cook) House, and  5. Storer College Gym.

3. Looking Towards the Gap from Camp Hill, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.

Photograph of the fort's exterior. It was built in 1848 as a guard and fire engine house for the federal Harpers Ferry Armory in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, then a part of Virginia. Storer College was a historically black college. The fort was on the campus of Storer College from 1909 to 1968.

4. John Brown's Fort on Storer College Campus, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.