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Harpers Ferry

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Har·pers Ferry  (härprz)
A locality of extreme northeast West Virginia. It was the scene of John Brown's rebellion (1859), in which he briefly seized the U.S. arsenal here. The town changed hands a number of times during the Civil War.
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Noun1.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
Harper's Ferry
Mountain State, West Virginia, WV - a state in east central United States
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