Search Results
- IDNO:
- 006630
- Title:
- View of Potomac from Hilltop House and View of Hilltop House from Potomac
- Date:
- undated
- Description:
- 'Amusements--Dancing in a large dance hall, overhanging the cliffs below. Tennis, bass fishing, horseback riding, hiking and motoring over good roads to nearby places of interest. Among these are Antitam battlefield, 15 miles; Charles Town, 8 miles, where John Brown was tried and hung; South Mountain 'the Geo. Alfred Townsend Arch', 10 miles; Frederick, the home of Francis Scott Key and Barbara Frietchie, 19 miles; Braddock Heights, 24 miles; Winchester, 30 miles; Endless Caverns, Luray Caverns and Gettysburg, from 50 to 70 miles. Railroad--On the main line of the B. and O. There are numerous through trains a day for Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York; also for Chicago, Cincinnati and St. Louis. Fifty-six miles from Washington, our nearest large city. T. S. Lovett, Proprietor.'
- IDNO:
- 006636
- Title:
- Anthony Hall, Storer College, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
- Description:
- Anthony Hall on the campus of Storer College in Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
- IDNO:
- 006637
- Title:
- Harpers Ferry, W. Va. from Maryland Heights
- Description:
- View of Harpers Ferry and bridge from Maryland Heights.
- IDNO:
- 006638
- Title:
- John Brown's Fort at Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
- IDNO:
- 006639
- Title:
- Toward the Gap from Jefferson Rock, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
- IDNO:
- 006640
- Title:
- High School, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
- IDNO:
- 006641
- Title:
- Natural Stone Steps and Catholic Church, Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
- Description:
- Natural stone steps leading up to a Catholic Church in Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
- IDNO:
- 013073
- Title:
- Engraving of Harper's Ferry - Scene of the Late Insurrection
- Date:
- 1859/10/29
- Description:
- From Harper's Weekly, October 29, 1859, page 692.
- IDNO:
- 013074
- Title:
- Scene from a Wooden Bridge in Harper's Ferry, W. Va.
- IDNO:
- 013075
- Title:
- Chimney Rock, Harper's Ferry, W. Va.
- IDNO:
- 013076
- Title:
- Jefferson Rock at Harper's Ferry, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1899
- Description:
- 'The famous rock at Harper's Ferry which was so often visited by President Thomas Jefferson, was named after him. It was from this point that Jefferson made his well-known remark that a view from this rock was 'worthy of a trip across the Atlantic'. It commands a view up and down the Shenandoah and across country for a distance of forty miles.' From West Virginia Collection Pamphlet 7514 'Picturesque Scenery among the Allegheny Mountains of NY, PA, MD, VA, and WV, etc.' Neely Educational Library, No. 6, 1899, F. Tennyson Neely, Publisher.
- IDNO:
- 013077
- Title:
- John Brown's Fort at Harpers Ferry, W. Va.
- Date:
- ca. 1890
