John Brown

Here John Brown aimed at human slavery a blow that woke a guilty nation. With him fought seven slaves and sons of slaves. Over his crucified corpse marched 200,000 black soldiers and 4,000,000 freedmen singing “John Brown’s body lies a-mouldering ...

John Brown Scaffold

Within these grounds a short distance east of this marker is the site of the scaffold on which John Brown, leader of the Harpers Ferry raid, was executed December the Second, 1859.

Marker is at the intersection of S. Samuel Street ...

Harpers Ferry / John Brown’s Fort

(West Facing Side): Harpers Ferry

Named for Robert Harper, who settled here in 1747 and operated ferry. Site purchased for Federal arsenal and armory in 1796. John Hall first used interchangeable gun parts here. Travel route thru Blue Ridge gap, and ...

John Brown Hanging Site

Creation of a Martyr

This is where seven men were hanged in December 1859 and March 1860 for their part in John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry. The scaffold stood here in a large field.

A month after the trial, on December ...

John Brown

and his associates collected arms and ammunition on the Kennedy Farm (Samples Manor) in Maryland for months prior to the raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, October 17, 1859

Marker is on Chestnut Grove Road, on the left when traveling ...

Boyhood home of John Brown

Hudson, Ohio was the boyhood home of John Brown (1800-1859.) This marker is at the very south end of East Main Street on the Ravenna Street Green.  Abolitionist John Brown came to Hudson as a boy in 1805 and lived ...

Johnny Mack Brown

Side A

Johnny Mack Brown, an outstanding athlete and western movie star, was born in Dothan on September 1, 1904. Johnny Mack was one of nine children born to John Henry and Hattie McGillivray Brown. The Brown family home was located ...

John Brown Monument

Commemorated here is the original location of the "John Brown Fort"--the Federal Armory's fire engine house where abolitionist John Brown and his raiders were captured by the U.S. Marines on October 18, 1859. If you look to the south, you ...

John Brown Raid

Captain John Cooke, one of Brown’s followers, was captured near here on October 25, 1859, nine days after the raid on Harper's Ferry. He was hanged December 16, two weeks after John Brown.

Marker is at the intersection of Park Street ...

John Brown Tannery

John Brown of Ossawatomie and Harper's Ferry worked here as a tanner, 1825-35. The nearby house was then his home. His first wife and son are buried near.

Marker is on John Brown Road 0.2 miles south of Pennsylvania Route 77, ...