BGuthrie Photos: WV -- Harpers Ferry NHP -- Exterior Shots -- Flood Watch

WV -- Harpers Ferry NHP -- Exterior Shots -- Flood Watch:

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Description of Pictures: Hurricane Isabel had already knocked my power off (and it would remain off for 5+ days). In Alexandria, Annapolis, and Baltimore, they had flooding. One place that seems to flood with regularity is Harpers Ferry, at the confluence of the Shenandoah and Potomac Rivers. So off I went to see it myself. The water rose a bit but didn't reach the predicted levels. They had figured it would cover main street and it ended up a foot below that. Still, it was fun to watch it rise and to see all of the people who came to observe the same thing.

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1. HARPEF_030920_001_STITCH.JPG: You can see the water has risen quite a bit beyond the normal here. Since the water covered over septic fields and such, it was polluted and they discouraged doing anything in it. That didn't stop the kayakers though.
2. HARPEF_030920_017.JPG: They've filmed a number of movies on these streets. Most recently, "Gods and Generals" was filmed here.
3. HARPEF_030920_025.JPG: When the Park Service took over, they restored some buildings and just left outlines for some of the other ones. These tended to be buildings from the armory days.
4. HARPEF_030920_109.JPG: In preparation for trees floating down the road and breaking into buildings, the Park Service had boarded up the windows with plywood. I was told that they didn't bother doing that level of preparation in Jamestown and lost millions of dollars in historical artifacts as a result.
5. HARPEF_030920_111.JPG: The FedEx delivery notice was a crowd favorite. They had tried to deliver something and couldn't because of the boarded up buildings. The tag says they'll basically return after the flooding.
6. HARPEF_030920_115.JPG: The train was parked on the bridge, with full cars, to prevent damage to the wooden bridge from rising water.
7. HARPEF_030920_172.JPG: This became on of my benchmarks to see how the rising water was doing. Each of the bridge trestles is numbered. This one says "28". The numbers rise to the left, where the flooding is coming from. You'll notice the water is just appearing in the bottom left of the picture, which would be trestle 29.
8. HARPEF_030920_219.JPG: That's a kayaker
9. HARPEF_030920_326.JPG: Harper's Ferry at flood time
10. HARPEF_030920_403.JPG: An hour or so later, the water's completely covered trestle 28
11. HARPEF_030920_419.JPG: Bruce Guthrie @ Harper's Ferry
12. HARPEF_030920_497.JPG: The signs talk about flooding over the years. Quite appropriate! The vertical marker shows different flood levels over the years. I was thinking this would be a huge flood but it didn't even cover the street level.
13. HARPEF_030920_554.JPG: Again, the train is parked here to stabilize the bridge
14. HARPEF_030920_562.JPG: Sign: John Brown Fort Here is a building with a curious past. Since its construction in 1848, it has been vandalized, dismantled, and moved four times -- all because of its fame as John Brown's stronghold. The Fort's "Movements" 1848 Built as fire-engine house for US Armory 1859 Serves as stronghold for John Brown and his raiders 1861-1865 Escapes destruction during Civil War (only armory building to do so), but is vandalized by souvenir-hunting Union and Confederate soldiers and later travelers. 1891 Dismantled and transported to Chicago Exposition. 1895 Rescued from conversion to stable and brought back to Harpers Ferry area to be exhibited on a farm. 1909 Purchased by Storer College and moved to campus. 1968 Moved by National Park Service to within 150 feet of its original location. On October 16, 1859, the abolitionist John Brown and his men attacked Harpers Ferry. By the following afternoon the local militia had penned the raiders in this building. United States Marines stormed the building at dawn on the 18th and captured Brown. Convicted of murder, treason, and inciting slaves to rebellion, he was hanged in nearby Charles Town on December 2, 1859.
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