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Title: Picturesque America; or, The land we live in. A delineation by pen and pencil of the mountains, rivers, lakes, forests, water-falls, shores, cañons, valleys, cities, and other picturesque features of our country
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878, editor Bunce, Oliver Bell, 1828-1890
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Publisher: New York, D. Appleton
Contributing Library: University Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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oper. Including the little townof Bolivar, on the heights, the population of Harpers Ferry is about two thousand.The principal street runs parallel with the Shenandoah, with a side-street ascending thehill to the right, perpendicular to which numerous stairs, cut in the solid rock, lead upstill steeper ascents. HARPERS FERRY. 321 Quaint and old-fashioned in its best estate, two causes have contributed to makethe town still more sleepy and dilapidated than is its normal condition. The recent warstunned it. Then came the disastrous flood of October, 1870, in the Shenandoah. Passwhere you will, there are evidences of the desolation left behind by these two occur-rences. And the people of the Ferry have very naturally lost heart. They talk aboutthe old days when the Shenandoah ran the mills and the government rifle-works on itsbanks; when the armory was in busy activity, and a regiment of lusty workmen ham-mered and rolled and moulded the arms which it was then thought would never be used
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,i^ p- f-^ 0,1-^^m-*^ View from Jefferson Rock. except against foreign foes; when many millions of solid dollars—a golden Pactolus—poured into the arms of the thriving little village from the national treasury. The in-habitants now talk of these days of prosperity with regret, with even a mild kind ofhope for better things in the future, but with no buoyancy of spirit. The place takes its name from Robert Harper, a native of Oxford, England, whoemigrated to this country in 1723. Harper settled at Philadelphia, and seems to havebeen a man of much ingenuity. At this time the infant colonies were offering highprices to skilled workmen, and Harper, being by profession an architect, was frequentlyrequired to travel to distant parts of the country. It was when on his way to erect a 41 322 PICTURESQUE AMERICA.

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