Charles Town Post Office
Jefferson County Jail
On the site of this Post Office stood the Jefferson County Jail where John Brown and his fellow prisoners were confined after their raid on Harpers Ferry in October 1859.
After court trial John Brown was taken from the Jail here to his death on the gallows December the Second in the year 1859.
From the Post Office in Charles Town, West Virginia, was started the first Rural Free Delivery service in the United States, under Postmaster-General Wm. L. Wilson, October the First, 1896.
Marker is at the intersection of South George Street (West Virginia Route 115) and Washington Street (West Virginia Route 51), on the right when traveling south on South George Street.
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