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Charles Town & Harpers Ferry, WV June 2009 The last leg of our Western Maryland and West Virginia trip took us to Charles Town Races & Casino then to Harper's Ferry National Historic Park. Harper's Ferry is fascinating on so many levels. This pivotal location in the Civil War has played a part in the history of many eras.

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Welcome to West Virginia	Charles Town Races has a beautiful track and very impressive casino	Charles Town Races has a beautiful track and very impressive casino
Charles Town Races has a beautiful track and very impressive casino	This is a rough picture but is the only one I managed to snap of the Charles Town Court House where John Brown was tried and convicted	Winchester & Potomac Railroad Trestle at Harper's Ferry
Shenandoah Street at Harper's Ferry	Shenandoah Street at Harper's Ferry	Wetland Museum & John Brown Museum at Harper's Ferry
Walking along the Appalachian Trail across a railroad bridge at Harper's Ferry	Harper's Ferry train tunnel	The Appalachian Trail passes through Harper's Ferry
	Harper's Ferry still has an active train station	Harper's Ferry train tunnel
The General Store is really more of a bike shop, but the building is still cool	Historic laundry :-)	The Lewis & Clark Trail also passes through Harper's Ferry
Historic buildings surround you in Harper's Ferry	The White Horse Tavern	Before Wal-Mart, there was this
Not too much to say about a wall and a railroad trestle	Saint Peter's Church towers over the Winchester & Potomac Railroad Trestle	A duck enjoys the Shenandoah River
The Shenandoah River	Something makes me think this house used to be bigger	The Blacksmith Shop was closed the day we were at Harper's Ferry
Somewhere below all that algae is the Shenandoah Canal