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Two brick arsenal buildings once stood on these grounds, housing about 100,000 weapons produced at the Harpers Ferry Armory. Capturing those firearms was the objective of John Brown’s 1859 raid. Eighteen months after Brown’s attack, the Civil War erupted. When Virginia militia advanced on the town on April 18, 1861, an outnumbered Federal garrison burned the arsenal and evacuated the town. The buildings and nearly 15,000 guns were destroyed.
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Lovettsville, Maryland · United States
