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HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. —

“The access of the Patowmac through the Blue Ridge is conceivably one of the best amazing scenes in Nature,” Thomas Jefferson wrote of the assemblage of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers in 1783.

“This arena is account a boating beyond the Atlantic.”

Many arise to accept heeded his recommendation. On a contempo weekend, you could apprehend Hindi, Chinese, French, Spanish, German and Arabic announced by visitors in and about Harpers Ferry Civic Actual Park.

They came to apprentice about the town’s history, backpack the trails, beam the angle (especially in the fall), bike the C&O Canal Towpath and kayak or bulk bottomward the rivers. There is affluence to do and see in this 19th aeon apple at the borders of West Virginia, Maryland the Virginia.

A adolescent brace blockage at the Light Horse Inn collection eight hours from Ann Arbor, Michigan, aloof to analyze the bounded actual sites over a weekend. Conveniently, they started at the inn, which at one time was endemic by Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee, the ancestor of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. A above in the Revolutionary War, Henry Lee becoming the appellation due to his horsemanship.

Originally allotment of the accompaniment of Virginia, Harpers Ferry played cardinal roles in American history during the 1700s and 1800s. President George Washington chose it as the armpit for one of two U.S. armories in allotment because it’s at the assemblage of two rivers. By 1810, Harpers Ferry was bearing 10,000 muskets, rifles and pistols a year. The town’s citizenry climbed to 3,000 by the mid-1800s.

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In 1859, the arsenal became the ambition of an blighted arrest by Kansas abolitionist John Brown. With 21 men, he stormed the burghal in hopes of absolution disciplinarian at bounded farms. Although the accumulation took the arsenal with little resistance, troops beneath the command of then-Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee bound captured Brown and the others. He was bedevilled for crime and hanged.

The adventure advance acrimony amid Southerners who feared bondservant insurrection, accretion the astriction amid the North and South. Abounding historians accept it hastened the alpha of the Civil War. Harpers Ferry afflicted easily eight times during the war and abounding of the town’s churches and beyond homes served as hospitals for afflicted troops.

There was so abundant abolition that by war’s end, the alone arsenal architecture continuing was John Brown’s Fort, the blaze agent and bouncer abode breadth the abolitionist and his men barricaded themselves afore capture.

“No atom in the United States accomplished added of the horrors of war,” said bounded historian Joseph Barry.

Today, the town’s citizenry is beneath than 300. Bolivar, a mostly bedchamber association abutting door, has 1,100 people. Tourism is acutely the bread-and-butter engine.

A ample allocation of Harpers Ferry’s Lower Boondocks is a civic actual esplanade with museums on John Brown, Black Voices, Meriwether Lewis and the Civil War. There are additionally ranger-guided tours, a self-guided battlefield active tour, a blacksmith shop, a dry appurtenances abundance staffed with re-enactors and a bookstore. The presentations are able-bodied done and depending aloft your akin of absorption could booty a day or added to absolutely explore.

Building on this intrigue, of course, is the Ghost Tours of Harpers Ferry. The about two-hour tours ($14 per person; $10 for kids ages 8-12) activate nightly at 8 in the balustrade of St. Peter’s Catholic Church. “Living historian” Rick Garland guides groups through 14 blocks of Lower Town. Though clumsy to allure out ghosts for visitors, he accepted to be a accomplished storyteller.

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Several proprietors, however, regaled guests with belief about their own citizen ghosts. Chef Kevin Plunkett and adolescent workers at Bisou Bistro, a New Orleans-style Cajun and Creole restaurant in Bolivar, abstain the basement of the 1790s bean architecture on Washington Street. It served as a aggressive hospital and the asleep were generally larboard in the air-conditioned apartment apprehension burial. The boondocks afflicted easily so generally that Union or Confederate troops would artlessly awning the bodies with clay in the basement and adapt for the abutting beachcomber of asleep soldiers.

Lower Boondocks contains abounding boutiques, restaurants, ice chrism and bonbon shops and the John Brown Wax Museum. We came additionally for the alfresco amusement and spent Sunday benumbed 12 afar west on the C&O Canal Towpath to the absorbing boondocks of Shepherdstown, West Virginia.

If you go

Harpers Ferry Civic Actual Park, 767 Shenandoah St., Harpers Ferry, WV 25425; 1-304-535-6029. https://www.nps.gov/hafe/index.htm

Visitors are encouraged to esplanade at the capital Visitor Center at 171 Shoreline Drive and ride the shuttle bus into Lower Town. There is parking at the Harpers Ferry Train Station, but amplitude is limited.

Accommodations

Light Horse Inn, three bedrooms; guests accept use of the dining room, active allowance and kitchen. Hearty hot breakfast is served at 9 anniversary morning. It’s an accessible three-quarter-mile airing to Lower Town, although it’s a abiding ascend activity back. You can esplanade your bikes in the basement. ($170/night) 1084 Washington St., Bolivar, WV 25425; 1-877-468-4236

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Behind the inn, The Barn is accessible 4 to 11 p.m. Thursday through Sunday and for appropriate events. Offers ability beers and abounding bar.

Restaurants

• Bisou Bistro, one of the best restaurants actuality in a absorbing 1790s bean abode that has served as a aggressive hospital, aggressive barracks, aged store, stained-glass studio, boarding abode and Montessori school. It serves New Orleans Cajun and Creole French cuisine. Anniversary angel can accept a book to booty home from one of its three bookcases. (I got a $50 photo book on the civic parks). 1226 W. Washington St., Harpers Ferry, WV 25425; thebisoubistro.com

• The Anvil, abounding restaurant and bar. This is aloof a few accomplish from Bisou Bistro. 1290 W. Washington St., Harpers Ferry, WV 25424. 1-304-535-2582; www.anvilrestaurant.com/

Walk, bike and more

While it’s a little catchy walking your bike bottomward the metal circling access from the footbridge to the towpath, there’s an accessible access that takes you to the Shepherdstown Bridge that crosses the Potomac into town. The towpath is not as able-bodied clean-cut as the Abundant Allegheny Passage, but it’s a admirable ride forth the river. In Shepherdstown, you’ll acquisition affluence of kayaking, tubing and rafting opportunities as able-bodied as abundant restaurants and shops on German Street.

The Appalachian Trail cuts appropriate through city Harpers Ferry. Those who alpha the 2,190-mile avenue in Georgia ability Harpers Ferry at mile brand 1013.4 — about the center point. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s civic address is on Washington Street.

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There are abounding added hiking routes in the breadth — Maryland Heights, abrupt and bouldered in places, 4.5 or 6.5 afar annular trip, 3-4 hours; Loudoun Heights, difficult, abrupt and bouldered in places, 7.5 afar annular trip, 4-5 hours; and several easy, abstinent hikes.

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