Harpers Ferry Industry
by R B Harper
Title
Harpers Ferry Industry
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R B Harper
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Photograph - Fine Art Photograph
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Harpers Ferry is now best known for radical abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid on the arsenal there but it was the site of a United States Armory and Arsenal built in 1799 as well as a growing industrial center. Meriwether Lewis traveled there in 1803 for the weapons and hardware he needed for the transcontinental expedition. The Chesapeake & Ohio Canal reached linked the village with Washington, D.C., in 1833 and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad began service there a year later. In 1774, Captain John Ames made some of the first manufactured shovels in what would become the sixth state of the United States of America. This water-powered Blanchard's lathe by Ames duplicates rifle stocks.
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May 29th, 2013
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