As a vital early American town, Harpers Ferry has been the site of a number of historical events. It was a point of supply for Meriwether Lewis’s Corps of Discovery, the site of John Brown’s ...

Chronic Wasting Disease, also known as zombie deer disease, is fatal for deer and elk, and has a similar effect on the ...

After lunch, I head to Antietam National Battlefield in Sharpsburg, Maryland. As I approach the visitor center, I am overwhelmed by the beauty of the cornfields and the landscape, remarkably unchanged ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) testing after a recent reduction of the white-tailed deer herd at Manassas National Battlefield Park has revealed a case in the Prince William County, Virginia, part of ...

General Dynamics-NASSCO has been awarded nearly $64 million to repair and modernize the USS Harpers Ferry, a 610-foot amphibious dock landing ship that is used to transport Marines and vehicles, ...

where the bloodiest battle of the Civil War took place. Not 18 miles down the road is Harpers Ferry, where abolitionist John Brown attempted to raid a federal arsenal and stoke a slave rebellion ...

PD By the summer of 1859, Brown had finalized his plans. His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded by mountains, tucked at the bottom of a ravine created ...