After breakfast we drove to Harpers Ferry. On the way we stopped at Monocacy River Valley Viewpoint (Frederick). The weather was on the cool side which kept down the crowds in Harpers Ferry. We went to the B&O Harpers Ferry Railroad Station and then wandered around for a couple hours. We saw John Brown Fort (Stronghold) Monument, Arsenal Square, Lower Town, Harpers Ferry Tunnel 1931, C&O Canal and Towpath Lock 33, St. Peter’s Roman Catholic Church 1833 (NRHP), and Jefferson Rock.
We looked high and low for the cache “A Tale of 2 Cities – Harpers Ferry” but could not find it. I did find NGS Benchmark: P1 on a cannon base near the Harpers Ferry Bandstand (NGS Benchmark). We found a cache in a small community park – “A Tale of 2 Cities - Bolivar.” There was a small brick Pre Civil War Spring House at the front of the park. It evidently provided water to both the North and South during one of the many battles to occur in these two towns during the Civil War. We had dinner at Mountain View Diner in Charlestown, WV.
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