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He rented a farm in Maryland, across the Potomac River from Harpers Ferry. Here he assembled his arms and waited for his "army" to arrive. The delay had an adverse effect on Brown's plan.

By Angela Serratore This four-bedroom, one-and-a-half-bathroom house is in the Harpers Ferry Historic District, less than a mile from John Brown’s Fort and the Potomac River. A bridge with a ...

PD By the summer of 1859, Brown had finalized his plans. His target was the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia — a town surrounded by mountains, tucked at the bottom of a ravine created ...