Harpers Ferry W.V.at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers.

The old stone piers across the Potomac River originally carried a covered timber railroad and wagon bridge erected in 1836 by the B&O Railroad. John Brown entered Harpers Ferry via this bridge when he led his famous raid in 1859. Nearly two years later, on June 14, 1861, Confederate troops blew it up – the first of nine times it was destroyed during the Civil War. An iron "Bollman bridge," completed in 1870, survived for 66 years, until the record Flood of 1936 swept it away A new bridge with girders, still in use today, was completed in 1894.