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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  • Village with about 270 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of around 490 feet (150 metres)
  • Description: town in West Virginia, United States
  • Postal code: 25425
  • Also known as
    “Harpers Ferry, West Virginia”
    “Harpers Ferry, WV”
    “Peters Hole”
    “Shenandoah Falls”
    “The Hole”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Harpers Ferry station and John Brown’s Fort.
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Railway station
is a railway station in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
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John Brown's Fort was initially built in 1848 for use…
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Museum

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bolivar and Sandy Hook.
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Village
is a town in , United States.
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Hamlet
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Harpers Ferry

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Latitude
39.3234° or 39° 19′ 24″ north
Longitude
-77.732° or 77° 43′ 55″ west
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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: “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”
  • French: “Harper’s 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”
  • 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: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Ossetian: “Харперс-Ферри (Ныгуылæн Вирджини)”
  • Ossetian: “Харперс-Ферри”
  • 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”
  • Vietnamese: “Harpers Ferry, Tây Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Harpers Ferry, West Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Harpers Ferry”
  • Volapük: “Harpers Ferry, West Virginia”
  • Volapük: “Harpers Ferry”

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