Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 560
Land area (2000): 0.611418 sq. miles (1.583565 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.016983 sq. miles (0.043987 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.628401 sq. miles (1.627552 sq. km)
FIPS code: 34590
Located within: Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location: 43.201668 N, 91.150696 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 52146
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Harpers Ferry
Housing Units (2000): 189
Land area (2000): 0.555983 sq. miles (1.439989 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.063025 sq. miles (0.163234 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.619008 sq. miles (1.603223 sq. km)
FIPS code: 35284
Located within: West Virginia (WV), FIPS 54
Location: 39.325398 N, 77.743599 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 25425
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Harpers Ferry
Wikipedia
Harpers Ferry is the name of several places in the United States of America:
- Harpers Ferry, Iowa, a city in Allamakee County, Iowa
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, a town in Jefferson County, West Virginia
- John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)
- Harpers Ferry Armory, second federal armory (construction begun 1799) and site of John Brown's slave revolt of 1859
- Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
- The Battle of Harpers Ferry (September 12–15, 1862), a battle in the American Civil War that took place around what is now Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Harpers Ferry may also refer to:
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Harpers Ferry class dock landing ship, a ship class in the United States Navy
- USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49), a Harpers Ferry class dock landing ship of the United States Navy, commissioned in 1995
- Harpers Ferry, a music venue and nightclub in Boston
Harpers Ferry was a live music venue and bar in the Allston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. It was in the high traffic central student section of Boston, equidistant from both Boston College and Boston University. Hosting national touring acts and regional acts, Harpers Ferry became known as "Boston's Best Live Music". The development of the "Allston Rock City" music scene centered on Harpers Ferry as a primary venue. Harpers Ferry closed down unexpectedly on October 31, 2010. The location is now home to the Brighton Music Hall.
Usage examples of "harpers ferry".
I'd been thinking about it pretty much nonstop for the past few days and it weighed on my mind during the numbing ride home from Harpers Ferry West Virginia.
I'd been thinking about it pretty much non-stop for the past few days and it weighed on my mind during the numbing ride home from Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
In 1859, Lee led the force that suppressed John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry.
Government Printing Office maps of 1859, made available to me through the kindness of Jeff Bowers and Kyle McGrogan of the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park.
He didn't think much of the sword, but the sidearm was a dandy Model 1805 Harpers Ferry cavalryman's pistol.
Second, on a trip across the bay in 1842 he chanced to see the operation of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and was so enchanted by the prospect of linking the nation together by rails that for no reason at all other than scientific curiosity he rode the train to Harpers Ferry and back.
Without the machines captured at Harpers Ferry and moved here in the first days of the war, the South would have been hard-pressed for weapons.