Harpers Ferry
or Harper's Ferry
[ hahr-perz ]
/ ˈhɑr pərz /
noun
a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859.
Cultural definitions for harpers ferry
Harpers Ferry
The place now in West Virginia where the militant abolitionist John Brown was captured in 1859, after he seized a federal arsenal there.