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Photograph of the fort's exterior. It was built in 1848 as a guard and fire engine house for the federal Harpers Ferry Armory in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, then a part of Virginia. Storer College was a historically black college. The fort was on the campus of Storer College from 1909 to 1968.

1. John Brown's Fort on Storer College Campus, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.

Maryland, the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal and a reconstructed Baltimore and Ohio Railroad bridge on the Potomac River as viewed from the Harpers Ferry cemetery. Note the head stones in the foreground and the smoke stack of the burned out United States Armory below. The photograph was taken during the Civil War.

2. Maryland Heights Across Potomac River at Harpers Ferry, Va, (W. Va.)

Looking east along the Potomac River on the Virginia (West Virginia) side. The ruins of the Armory can be seen on the left and telegraph poles line the damaged tracks. Two men, one leaning on a telegraph pole and another next to the house are not identified. The photograph was taken several weeks after the September,1862 battle when Stonewall Jackson's artillery shelled the town, forcing the Union troops to surrender.

3. Harpers Ferry Gap, Harpers Ferry, Va. (W. Va. )

This is the site of the U.S. Arsenal captured by John Brown October 16th 1859.

4. Sign Designating the Site of U.S. Arsenal by Captured by John Brown, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.

Burning of the U.S. Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry on the night of April 18, 1861. From a sketch in Leslies Weekly. See West Virginia Collection Pamphlet 6610 and Boyd Stutler's 'WV in the Civil War.'

5. Burning of the U. S. Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry

The U.S. Army Buildings which John Brown took possession of. Harpers Ferry, W. VA. Junction of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers. Meeting of the States of MD., W. VA., and VA.  Arsenal captured, October 16, 1859.

6. Drawing of Harpers Ferry Arsenal , Captured By John Brown