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On the site of the Post Office stood the Jefferson County Jail, where John Brown and his fellow prisoners were confined after their raid on Harpers Ferry in October 1859. After court trial, John Brown was taken from the jail here to his death on the gallows on December the Second, 1859. From the Post Office in Charles Town, West Virginia, the first Rural Free Delivery service in the United States was started under Postmaster-General Wm. L. Wilson on October the First, 1896.
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Ranson, West Virginia · United States
