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At 6:00 a.m., attendees of the Niagara Movement at Storer College in Harpers Ferry made a barefoot pilgrimage to John Brown's Fort, located then on the Murphy farm
Harpers Ferry’s most famous building is the John Brown Fort. Except it is not a fort. It is a fire-engine house. And it has been moved four times!John Brown selected the compact brick building as his command center when the fiery abolitionist laun...
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