From its headwaters in West Virginia to its estuary in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, the Potomac River was a frontline during the Civil War. On the banks of the river at Harpers Ferry, a federal ...

Darnestown was the site of many Civil War battles ... Offutt’s Crossroads renamed Potomac. Thomas Perry built the Perry Store on the corner of River and Falls roads the year before.

The commemoration recalls a tragic 1865 maritime collision on the Potomac River tied to the pursuit ... based group of teenage siblings playing Civil War-era and American folk music on fiddle ...

Library of Congress Harpers Ferry, Virginia, lay sleeping on the night of October 16, 1859, as 19 heavily armed men stole down mist-shrouded bluffs along the Potomac River where it joins the ...

The series, which began April 27, 2025, with a “Civil War & the Potomac River” cruise, offers guests a unique blend of history, scenic tours, and local cuisine. With only 20 seats per cruise ...