Caption on back of postcard reads: "Now located on the campus of Storer College, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. John Brown and his followers captured this fire engine house at Harpers Ferry and defended it against the U.S. Army until captured by Col. Robert E. Lee on October 18, 1859." Published by Kelley's Studio. (From postcard collection legacy system.) Since the time this caption was written the "fort" has been moved to the lower town, closer to it's original location.
Caption on back of postcard reads: "The small house at left of row shows Robert Harper House at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, as it looks today." Published by Grafton Souvenir. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
McMurran Hall, Shepherd College; Shepherdstown, W. Va.
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Caption on back of postcard reads: "McMurran Hall was named after the first college president, Joseph McMurran. Shepherd College was founded in 1871. From this early date Shepherd College has grown to a four year, fully accredited, state college." Published by Dexter Press Incorporated. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Snyder Science Hall, Shepherd College; Shepherdstown, W. Va.
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Caption on back of postcard reads: "A three story building opened in 1942. The first floor is devoted to a social room, laboratories for foods, dietetics, health services, textiles and clothing, geology lectures and laboratory. The second floor is devoted to biology, museum, plant room and animal room. The third floor has a classroom and laboratories for elementary and advanced chemistry, weighing room, and classroom and laboratory for physics." Published by Naturecraft. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
McMurran Hall, Shepherd College; Shepherdstown, W. Va.
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Caption on back of postcard reads: "Shepherd College was founded in 1871. McMurran Hall was named after the first college president Joseph McMurran. From the early date Shepherd College has grown to a four year, fully accredited, Liberal Arts College." (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Knutti Administration Hall, Shepherd College, Shepherdstown, W. Va.
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Caption on back of postcard reads: "Erected in 1904, this building contains the administrative offices, library, teachers education center and radio studios. Shepherd College, an accredited state college is located in historic Shepherdstown, Wes Virginia on the banks of the beautiful Potomac River." Published by Frederick Camera Shop. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Built in 1780. Caption on back of postcard reads: "Here Robert Harper, the founder of Harper's Ferry lived during the years he conducted a ferry across the river to the Maryland Shore. Harper's body lies buried overlooking the town." See original for correspondence. Published by John Myerly Company. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Caption on back of postcard reads: "Charles Washington Memorial Hall located on one of the four corners, donated by Charles Washington, brother of General George Washington." See original for correspondence. Published by Tichnor Bros. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Caption on back of postcard reads: "Sometimes called the Market Building. The original building was built in 1806 on land donated by Charles Washington, brother of the first president of the United States. During the war between the states it was destroyed by fire by Union Soldiers. The people of Charles Town rebuilt it in 1874. The first floor was used as a market house for over 100 years. At one time the Charles Town Post Office was located in this building and it was here that the first rural delivery mail route in the country was inaugurated in 1896. This was during the term of William L. Wilson, of Charles Town, as Postmaster General in President Cleveland's cabinet." Published by Kelly Studios. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Caption on back of postcard reads: "Court House at Charlestown, W. Va. (then Virginia), where John Brown was tried and convicted on Nov. 2, 1859. The scaffold on which Brown was executed was afterwards built into the porch of a house, bought by a Confederate soldier, still the owner. It was taken to Chicago and then brought to Washington. The Kansas State Historical Society will probably become its permanent owner." Published by The National Tribune. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Jefferson County Court House; Charles Town, W. Va.
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Caption on back of postcard reads: "It was in this court house on December 2, 1869 that John Brown was sentenced to be hanged for his treasonous raid on the Engine House at Harper's Ferry 8 miles distant. Jefferson County was named for Thomas Jefferson and was formed from Berkeley County in 1801. In early colonial times, Jefferson County was part of a vast territory which spread North and East from the Williamsburg seat of government in Virginia." Published by Kelly Studios. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Caption on back of postcard reads: "This house built by Robert Harper about 1775 on a bluff overlooking the place where the Shenandoah flows into the Potomac River about 50 miles N.W. of the nation's capitol. The bridge is to the Garden. the house was remodeled 3 times between 1775 and 1859. The house was recently restored by the National Park Service and furnished by the Shenandoah-Potomac Garden Council." Published by Kelley's Studio. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Caption on back of postcard reads: "This beautiful old building was built in 1826. Used as a store first, it was later remodeled into an inn serving stagecoach trade and travelers on the C & O Canal and B & O Railroad. Since restored, it now serves as a Park Service Office and Tourist Center, at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia." (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Caption on back of postcard reads: "Built in 1826, the Stagecoach Inn, a favorite stopping place for travelers in its day, has been restored as a visitors center. Rising behind and above it is St. Peter's Catholic Church." Published by D.E. Traub. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Caption on back of postcard reads: "Charlestown is the county seat of Jefferson County, West Virginia (then Virginia), and on the Shenandoah Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio, about 10 miles southwest of Harper's Ferry. In 1859 it had a population of less than 1,500, about one third of whom were colored. It is surrounded by a fertile and beautiful country. The jail in which John Brown was confined and from which he was taken to execution has been rebuilt and modernized." Published by National Tribune. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Caption on back of postcard reads: "St. George's Chapel was the first church erected West of the Blue Ridge Mountains. No record has ever been found of the exact date of its erection, owing to the fact that it was part of Norborne Parish, England. The original furnishings were brought from England. The roof of sheet lead was used for bullets during the Civil War." Published by Nichols Drug Store. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Caption on postcard reads: "The Inn is located in historic Charles Town in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley on the National Highway, two hours from Washington and Baltimore." Published by I & M Ottenheimer. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
St. Peter's Catholic Church; Harper's Ferry, W. Va.
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Caption on back of postcard reads: "Built 1831 - Remodeled 1896. Used as Hospital during Civil War. Has been in continuous use since its dedication." (From postcard collection legacy system.)
St. John's Episcopal Church Ruins; Harper's Ferry, W. Va.
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Caption on back of postcard reads: "Old Church ruins at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, used by soldier to hide their horses during Civil War." (From postcard collection legacy system.)
Caption on back of postcard reads: "The colonial home of Charles Washington, a brother of George Washington, and founder of Charles Town. He built the wings of the present house and called it "Happy Retreat." In 1833 Judge Douglass completed the center part, modeling it after "Mordington," the Douglass ancestral home in Scotland." Published by Nichols, Drug Store. (From postcard collection legacy system.)
