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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMCC8_the-point_Harpers-Ferry-MD.html
Today's view of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers passing through the water gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains has changed little from Meriwether Lewis' view in 1803. Lewis hoped to find a similar, accessible trade route on rivers passing through the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM7S6_early-travel_Harpers-Ferry-MD.html
Situated in a gap of the Blue Ridge Mountains and at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers, Harpers Ferry, from its beginning, functioned as a natural avenue of transportation.The first mode of travel consisted of a primitive ferry e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMKH_washington-monument_Charles-Town-MD.html
During the Antietam Campaign, the U.S. Signal Corps used the stone structure as a signal station. On July 4, 1827, citizens of the town of Boonsboro paraded to the top of the mountain here and began building this first monument in the country comp…