poet Stephen Vincent Benet wrote in 1928. These words, which greet visitors entering the John Brown Museum at Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia, serve as a reminder of the ...

Jefferson County, in the state’s eastern panhandle, is the dramatic setting for John Brown’s abolitionist ... director of the Jefferson County Museum. “One man was wounded and they needed ...

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John Brown was born in Torrington, Connecticut, in 1800. He would spend the next fifty-nine years moving about the country, settling in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York, and ...