Harpers-ferry
[hahr-perz] /ˈhɑr pərz/
noun
1.
a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown’s raid 1859.
The place now in West Virginia where the militant abolitionist John Brown was captured in 1859, after he seized a federal arsenal there.
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