![](media/image1.wmf){width="1.1756944444444444in"
height="1.5in"}**HARPERS FERRY NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK**

**SCAVENGER HUNT**

Follow these questions and clues to discover the diverse and exciting
history of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. The **bolded
locations** preceding each section will help direct you to the area or
museum where you can find those answers. The questions will require your
knowledge, your detective skills, and a keen sense of adventure!

**Hamilton Street (#7 on map),** located behind the railroad trestles,
was the home to several buildings.

1.  For what were some of the buildings used?

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**Bridge Street (near #7)**

Walk down Bridge Street until you reach the river. Here you will notice
two piles of rock in the river. (Note: These may not be visible when the
water is high.)

2.  For what do you think they were used?

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**The Bookshop (#5)** was built between 1825 and 1834.

3.  How many chimneys does this structure have?

> **0 1 2 3 4**

4.  What are some reasons that a building would have so many chimneys?

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**Provost Marshal's Office (#9)** "Show your pass!" would have been
heard throughout Harpers Ferry. The Union Provost Guards for the United
States Military patrolled the streets here during the Civil War.

5.  By looking at the prisoner status on the wall, where were the 501
    Rebels captured?

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**Industry Museum (#4)**

In the 19th century, Harpers Ferry was an industrial village. This
museum reflects some of the innovation and industry that was here.

6.  List two things that were produced by water power in Harpers Ferry.

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7\. Locate John Hall's Rifle Works on the map of Virginius Island.

> Hall's perfection of \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
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> technology represents a major development in the industrial
> revolution.

**Dry Goods Store (#11)**

In the 1850s more than 40 Harpers Ferry merchants, including several dry
goods, grocery, and hardware stores served a population of over 2,500
people.

8.  What were three transportation systems that brought goods to Harpers
    Ferry in the 1850s?

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9.  Could you have purchased items here in the Dry Goods Store on credit
    (Hint: Check the advertisements on the walls)?

YES NO

**Master Armorer's House (#1)**

Harpers Ferry preserves over 240 years of American History.

10. ![](media/image2.png){width="1.2090277777777778in"
    height="2.0256944444444445in"}What are the six stories that happened
    here?

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**Restoration Museum (#2)**

There are questions related to the original appearance of buildings
because of the changes that could have occurred over several decades.

11. List three different public records that give us information about a
    building's prior use and occupants.

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**Porch and area behind Restoration Museum**

12. What is now where the window used to be?

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13. Throughout Harpers Ferry you will find rock walls. What caused the
    cylindrical cuts in the rock walls?

> Prehistoric Worms Drills

**John Brown Museum (#15)**

These restored buildings now house an interactive exhibit that tells the
story of John Brown and the turbulent times in which he lived.

14. How many years ago, from today, did John Brown's Raid occur?

(Current year) -- 1859 = \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

**John Brown's Fort (#13),** was the armory fire engine house used by
John Brown as a final refuge during his raid in 1859.

15. What were the crimes John Brown was convicted of having committed?

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**C & O Canal (across the footbridge from #14)**

16. What number is the lock that is located on the other side of the
    pedestrian bridge?

> 33 27 45 23 31

**The Point (#14)**

Here you can see the joining of the two rivers.

17. Names these two rivers

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18. Look at the side of the mountain (Maryland Heights), and try to
    finish the sign that was painted about 1896.

**Arsenal Square (#12)**

Here you can see the partial foundations of the two United States
Arsenal buildings.

19. What was the purpose of the arsenal?

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**Education and the Struggle for Equality (#17)** After the Civil War,
Storer College opened as a school to teach newly freed slaves.

20. One of the first trustees of Storer College was an escaped slave who
    later became an abolitionist leader. His name was:

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**Niagara Movement Exhibit (#17)**

This is a movement that provided a foundation organization for the Civil
Rights Movement and the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People.

21. "The clash of titans" was between what two people?

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**African American Exhibit (#22)**

22. Isaac Gilbert raised the considerable sum of \$ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_
    to purchase his wife and their three children.

**Defeat and Victory (#19)**

23. In 1862 General Robert E. Lee led confederate troops into the North.
    This campaign was known as:

> The \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_Campaign

Maryland West Virginia Virginia

24. Often soldiers would leave markings in areas that they have been.
    One example can be found on the back room of this museum. What does
    the graffiti on the wall say?

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**Harper House (#25)**

Built by Robert Harper between 1775 and 1782, this is the oldest
surviving structure in the park.

25. How much rent did the McGraw family pay to live in a portion of the
    Harper House in 1856?

> \$ \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_

![](media/image3.wmf){width="0.8951388888888889in"
height="1.25in"}**Jefferson Rock (#26)**

Thomas Jefferson visited the town of Harpers Ferry in 1783 and stated
that this view was "worth a voyage across the Atlantic."

26. Why was the red sandstone pillars placed under the rock by the
    armory superintendent in 1860?

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**Bonus Questions!**

What do you think caused the crack in the stone steps?

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![](media/image4.jpeg){width="1.25in" height="1.25in"}Throughout Harpers
Ferry, you might notice brown posts with white blazes, lines, and arrows
on the top. What do these posts mark? (Hint: This trail runs from Maine
to Georgia)

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**Historical Search- Answer Key**

1.  Housing, marketplace, brewery, paymaster house, boarding house,
    armory workers dwelling, butcher shop

2.  A bridge

3.  3 chimneys

4.  To provide heat for the house

5.  Cedar Creek

6.  Cotton sheeting, cotton yarn, guns, timber billet, candle wicking,
    linseed oil, paper pulp, tanned hides

7.  Interchangeability of parts

8.  Canal, railroads, and roads

9.  No

10. a\) Industry, b) John Brown, c) Civil War, d) African American
    History, e) Natural Heritage, f) Transportation

11. Deeds, maps, leases, newspaper ads, photographs

12. Bricks or a Brick wall

13. Drills

14. For 2007, the answer is 148 years ago

15. Murder, Treason, Inciting Slaves to Rebellion

16. 33

17. The Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers

18. TOILET

19. To store weapons

20. Fredrick Douglass

21. W.E.B. DuBois and Booker T. Washington

22. \$1,400.00

23. Maryland

24. "W.H. Shuster. Cº N Philª Fire Zouaves"

25. \$60.00 a year

26. Stabilize the rock

27. Continental plates colliding

28. Appalachian Trail

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