The town is filled with historic buildings and is actually part of the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. It had a population of 281 as of 2017.

Best to view in "Original" because other versions resized by Pbase are decidedly unsharp.

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Due to its strategic location at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, hosted the first ferry and then first railroad bridge across the Potomac and served as the only rail link between the Northern and Southern states during the Civil War. It was also the site of the famous raid by abolitionist John Brown on the town’s arsenal in 1859 in the hope of starting a slave revolt across the South, which was put down by then-Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee. Brown was subsequently tried and hanged for treason.

From another era, posted earlier: