Harpers Ferry, Virginia, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia

Thomas Jefferson At Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia

Hamilton Historical Records

Thomas Jefferson, a mentor to Lewis and Clark, visited Harper’s Ferry before both of the explorers did.

Benjamin Latrobe, the architect of the United States Capitol also visited the same rock at Harper’s Ferry.

Published by Hamilton Historical Records

I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.

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