Harpers Ferry

Harpers Ferry is a historic town of 285 people in the northern corner of the just inside . It is a natural transportation hub: the Shenandoah River empties into the Potomac there.
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  • Type: Village with 285 residents
  • Description: town in West Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Harper’s Ferry”, “Harpers Ferry, West Virginia”, “Harpers Ferry, WV”, “Peters Hole”, “Shenandoah Falls”, and “The Hole”
  • Postal code: 25425
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Harpers Ferry station and John Brown Museum.

Railway station
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is a railway station in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. It is served by the Amtrak Floridian intercity service as well as the MARC Brunswick Line commuter service.

Museum
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Island
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is a formerly inhabited of some 12 acres, on the in Harpers Ferry, . The island was created by the Shenandoah Canal, constructed by the Patowmack Company between 1806 and 1807, which separates it from the town of Harpers Ferry.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bolivar and Sandy Hook.

Village
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is a town in , United States. The population was 1,072 at the 2020 census.

Hamlet
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is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in , United States. Its population was 188 as of the 2010 census.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , , United States, near and Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. It is located in the Between the Hills region of the county along Harpers Ferry Road and is bounded to its northwest and northeast by the on the .

Harpers Ferry

Latitude
39.3234° or 39° 19′ 24″ north
Longitude
-77.732° or 77° 43′ 55″ west
Population
285
Elevation
489 feet (149 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US HFW
Open location code
87F487F9+96
Open­Street­Map ID
node 27074307
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
4808234
Wiki­data ID
Q985289
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Volapük—“Harpers Ferry” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هاربرز فيري”
  • Basque: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Breton: “Harpers Ferry (West Virginia)”
  • Breton: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Catalan: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Cebuano: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Chechen: “Гарперс-Ферри”
  • Chinese: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Chinese: “哈伯斯渡口”
  • Chinese: “哈珀斯渡口”
  • Chinese: “哈珀斯費里”
  • Chinese: “哈珀斯费里”
  • Dagbani: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Danish: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Dutch: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هاربرز فيرى”
  • Finnish: “Harper’s Ferry”
  • Finnish: “Harpers Ferry”
  • French: “Harper’s Ferry”
  • French: “Harpers Ferry”
  • German: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Gilaki: “هارپرز فری (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “هارپرز فری”
  • Hebrew: “הרפרס פרי”
  • Hebrew: “נשקיית הארפרס פרי”
  • Hungarian: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Italian: “Harper’s Ferry”
  • Italian: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Japanese: “ハーパーズ・フェリー”
  • Korean: “하퍼즈페리”
  • Ladin: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Lithuanian: “Harpers Feris”
  • Marathi: “हार्पर्स फेरी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Harper’s Ferry”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Norwegian: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Persian: “هارپرز، ویرجینیای غربی”
  • Persian: “هارپرز”
  • Polish: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Portuguese: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Russian: “Харперс-Ферри”
  • Serbian: “Харперс Фери”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Harpers Ferry, West Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Spanish: “Harpers Ferry (Virginia Occidental)”
  • Spanish: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Swedish: “Harpers Ferry, West Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Tatar: “Гарперс-Ферри”
  • Ukrainian: “Гарперс-Феррі”
  • Urdu: “ہارپرز فیری، مغربی ورجینیا”
  • Volapük: “Harpers Ferry, West Virginia”
  • Volapük: “Harpers Ferry”

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