Harpers Ferry: Meaning and Definition of

Har'pers Fer'ry

Pronunciation: (här'purz), [key]
  1. a town in NE West Virginia at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers: site of John Brown's raid 1859. 361.
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