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. The delay had an adverse effect on Brown's plan.

Crews remove more wreckage of the American Airlines jet from the Potomac River as they continue recovery efforts from last week's fatal midair collision that killed 67 people near Ronald Reagan ...

Before daybreak one summer morning, I leave Washington, D.C., and head northwest, more or less parallel to the Potomac River, until it meets the Shenandoah River in Harpers Ferry. I park my car and ...

Harpers Ferry is a small town located at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. Steeped in history, the town has roots dating back to the ...

From here you can make out the colorful rooftops of Harpers Ferry’s Lower ... gear up at River and Trail Outfitters to enjoy a serene float down the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in a tube ...

Ten days after a passenger jet and a Black Hawk helicopter collided over the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., killing all 67 people on board, investigators have recovered most of the debris ...

A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration plane used a green laser Saturday to search the Potomac River for helicopter parts amid the investigation into the Jan. 29 collision. The NOAA ...

As a vital early American town, Harpers Ferry has been the site of a number of historical ... Its position at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers not only set the stage for such ...

His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded ... Two had escaped across the river. Brown gathered those who were left in a small brick building, the engine ...