John Brown's plan seemed fairly straightforward ... He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled his arms and waited for his "army" to arrive.

John Brown is cornered at Harpers Ferry and Robert E Lee's army rushes the armory doors. He died to make men holy, let us die ...

At the precipice of the 4.5-mile Maryland Heights Overlook Trail, the small town of Harpers Ferry appears ... abolitionist John Brown led a legendary but ultimately unsuccessful slave revolt.

Newly freed teenager Onion joins abolitionist John Brown's motley crew of soldiers battling to end slavery, and finds himself part of the famous 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry. Based on the award ...

Historian Dennis Frye comments: "Brown still controls his own destiny. He commands the approaches in and out of Harpers Ferry.… So the question is, why didn’t John Brown leave?" "He stayed ...

In one fateful night, John Brown brought the country closer to Civil War (Video: Meredith Bragg). Read more at http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Day ...

As a vital early American town, Harpers Ferry has been the site of a number of historical events. It was a point of supply for Meriwether Lewis’s Corps of Discovery, the site of John Brown’s ...