Harper's Ferry

Harper's Ferry

Harper's Ferry, Städtchen im nordamerik. Staate Westvirginien, am Shenandoah und Potomac, (1900) 896 E.; bekannt durch häufige Kämpfe im Sezessionskriege.


http://www.zeno.org/Brockhaus-1911. 1911.

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