This scenic little town located where the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers join in Virginia is also at the confluence of the course of American history in the 19th century. I had forgotten that this was Meriwether Lewis' first stop after getting his orders from Jefferson. He provisioned the Corps of Discovery with arms from the armory, plus designed those amazing packable boats
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| Oh, that's all he did here. Glad I don't have to condense my words as much as the sign guy. |
Of course, the armory was the target of the abolitionist John Brown in his 1859 uprising. He holed up in the firehouse. Robert E. Lee was sent with Marines to quell the uprising, and Thomas Jonathan Jackson(not yet a Stonewall) tried in vain to settle it peaceably.
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