With cobblestone streets, haunted inns and ghost stories dating back to the Civil War, Harpers Ferry feels straight out of another century 🕯️ It’s located just a 1.5 hour drive from Baltimore and 3.5 hours from Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Harper’s Ferry is a National Historical Park where history and ghost stories intertwine making it the perfect October escape! 👻 Things to do in West Virginia | Places to go on Halloween | Spooky small towns on the east coast | Things to do near Baltimore Mar

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 was a daring but doomed attempt to ignite a slave uprising in the American South. Leading a small, racially mixed group of 21 men, the radical abolitionist seized the federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, hoping to arm enslaved people and spark a liberation movement. The raid was quickly suppressed by U.S. Marines led by Robert E. Lee, and Brown was captured, tried for treason, and hanged. Though militarily unsuccessful, the raid electrified the na