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Built in 1847 as quarters for the U.S. Armory paymaster, Lockwood House stood above Harpers Ferry and the Potomac River gap and figured in major episodes of the town's history. During the Civil War, it served as headquarters for Union Generals Henry H. Lockwood and Philip H. Sheridan. After the war, Storer Normal School, later Storer College and one of America's first schools for freed slaves, began here, and for almost a century black students and Freewill Baptist Church staff used the building. Today, its exterior is restored to the Civil War period, while two rooms are furnished as they were during its early Storer College occupancy.
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia · United States
