John Brown's Fort on Murphy's Farm, Bolivar Heights, W. Va.
Date:
ca. 1900
Description:
Fort building stands in a field where two children are playing in the foreground. Inscription with the image, 'The present site of John Brown's Fort as it now stands in a field overlooking the Shenandoah River, in [West] Virginia, a few miles from where it originally stood at Harper's Ferry. It was placed here at the request of Kate Field, of Washington after it was exhibited at the World's Fair in Chicago.'
John Brown's Fort on Storer College Campus, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
Date:
undated
Description:
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.
![Fort building stands in a field where two children are playing in the foreground. Inscription with the image, 'The present site of John Brown's Fort as it now stands in a field overlooking the Shenandoah River, in [West] Virginia, a few miles from where it originally stood at Harper's Ferry. It was placed here at the request of Kate Field, of Washington after it was exhibited at the World's Fair in Chicago.'](/thumb/006601.jpg "John Brown's Fort on Murphy's Farm, Bolivar Heights, W. Va.")
