Floods
Waterpower built this town, and the power of the water eventually destroyed it.
The destruction of the Federal Armory during the Civil War began the town's decline. Many people who had left Harpers Ferry during the war did return, only to be driven away again - and this time permanently - by the devastating flood of 1870 and those that soon followed. Harpers Ferry never fully recovered.
Marker is at the intersection of Shenandoah Street (Business U.S. 340) and Market Street, on the right when traveling east on Shenandoah Street.
Courtesy hmdb.org
