{"id":109,"date":"2011-07-09T15:49:29","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T15:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/?p=109"},"modified":"2011-07-09T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-09T15:51:21","slug":"harpers-ferry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/emancipation\/2011\/07\/09\/harpers-ferry\/","title":{"rendered":"Harpers Ferry"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harpers Ferry engine house (3D model)<\/p><\/div>\n

John Brown’s raid at Harpers Ferry in October 1859 was a critical event in the history of emancipation.\u00a0 Brown might have been the most determined emancipator in America during the years before the Civil War.\u00a0 His audacious plan to seize weapons from a federal arsenal and lead southern slaves to freedom along the Appalachian mountains was aggressive enough to scare away even some longtime friends and supporters such as Frederick Douglass.<\/p>\n

Harpers Ferry National Historical Park <\/a>near Charles Town, West Virginia contains several historic sites (both restored and preserved) for visitors to experience. \u00a0 The most significant might be the engine house or John Brown’s Fort which served as the location where Brown and some of his men holed up at the end the raid with their hostages.\u00a0 The storming of the engine house (by federal troops under the command of Col. Robert E. Lee) marked the culmination of the 36-hour raid.<\/p>\n

The House Divided Project at Dickinson College has created several three-dimensional models of the historic stuctures from the Harpers Ferry park and within nearby Charles Town (site of Brown’s trial and execution.\u00a0 Models include:<\/p>\n

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Heyward Shepherd Monument (Harpers Ferry)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Monument for original engine house location<\/p><\/div>\n

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Courthouse (Charles Town)<\/p><\/div>\n

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The models have been created in Google Sketch Up, a free, open-source design program that allows users to create 3D models and then place them within Google Earth tours, such as this one<\/a> created for Underground Railroad sites from Christiana (PA) to Harpers Ferry (WV).<\/p>\n

You can also search and view existing Sketch Up models for all eras of world history at Google’s 3D warehouse.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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