Harpers Ferry 1829 Model Hall Rifle sign Publisher: Editions de Francony

Publisher: Editions de Francony

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is notorious for its checkered history

Harpers Ferry 1829 Model Hall Rifle sign Publisher: Editions de FranconyIn 1774 George Washington nominated Harpers Ferry as America's second arsenal and armory. Construction began in 1799 and the armory was manufacturing guns by 1801. In 60 years Harpers Ferry produced 600,000 pistols and rifles. In 1859, a man named John Brown and his abolitionists seized the arsenal and later surrendered to the Marines under the command of Robert E. Lee. Union soldiers set fire to the armory to prevent the Confederacy from gaining an