. Book of the Royal blue . THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANALAT POINT OF ROCKS. before the Metropolitan or Washingrton branchwas built. You ^et your first good view of themountains from here. harpers ferry. This is one of the most famous of places inAmerica. It is the northern gateway of was here John Brown led his small handful ofmen from Pennsylvania, and started war inVirginia for the purpose of freeing the ca|)tured the arsenal there, but GovernorWise, of Vir({inia, called out the militia,.•uid the tfovcrnment sent the W;isliinf;ton Graysfrom thecapital. Your moth
. Book of the Royal blue . THE CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO CANALAT POINT OF ROCKS. before the Metropolitan or Washingrton branchwas built. You ^et your first good view of themountains from here. harpers ferry. This is one of the most famous of places inAmerica. It is the northern gateway of was here John Brown led his small handful ofmen from Pennsylvania, and started war inVirginia for the purpose of freeing the ca|)tured the arsenal there, but GovernorWise, of Vir({inia, called out the militia,.•uid the tfovcrnment sent the W;isliinf;ton Graysfrom thecapital. Your mothers hnitlier, Georfre,was a member of this troop. John Brown killedsome of the Virfjinians and the soldiers killedsome of his men. He was captured and hanfjedat Charlestown. This happened in IS.;!), a yearbefore Lincolns election, and it helped liringon tlie war. It was during the war theNorthern soldiers and people sanjj-— ■ John itrowiis bmly lies mouldrinff in tlie soul (foes inarrtiin^ OLD BRIDGE. CUMBERLAND. The Potomac River here separates Virginia fromMarylaTid, .just as it kocs down in Charles County,at Hock Point. Before the war old Virf^inia waseven a {jreater state than it is now. It stretchedfar east of Har]>ers Ferry, almost to Hagers-town, always kee]iing on the south bank of thePotomac, while Maryland bordered the northbank. But when the war broke out the peopleof the northern and western parts of the statecut loose from the rest of Vir;.rinia and formed anew state called West Virginia, with the capitalat Charleston, a town lying out in the mountainswestward toward the Ohio River. This is notthe town of Charlestown where John Brown washanged, which lies a few miles southwest ofHarpers Ferry, also in West Virginia. .\t Harpers Ferry you will see two greatliei;;hts, the faces of moimtains on opposite sidesof the Potomac River. One is called MarylandHeifihts and the other Loudon Heights, the latterbeing in Virginia. rUMUERLAN
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