He had been at lessons in the schoolhouse since they returned from Harpers Ferry.

So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.

Resolved, that we find in this fearful tragedy at Harper's Ferry a reason for more earnest effort to remove the evil of slavery from the whole land as speedily as possible.

But political debate was cut short throughout the South with Northern abolitionist John Brown's 1859 raid at Harpers Ferry Armory in an attempt to incite slave insurrections.

The Robert F. Henry Lock & Dam is located at river mile 236. 2, the Millers Ferry Lock & Dam is located at river mile 133. 0, and the Claiborne Lock & Dam is located at river mile 72. 5.

It was built mainly to satisfy public demand for creation of a grade-separated right of way for the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad ( later Long Island Rail Road ) on its way to the South Ferry at the foot of Atlantic Street ( later Atlantic Avenue ), where passengers could catch ferries to Manhattan.

The Battery Park City Ferry Terminal is at the foot of Vesey Street opposite the New York Mercantile Exchange and provides ferry transportation to various points in New Jersey.

The Passenger Ferry, as its name suggests, carries only passengers, principally to connect with the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway at Kingswear station.

Douglass later shared a stage at a speaking engagement in Harpers Ferry with Andrew Hunter, the prosecutor who successfully convicted Brown.

Washington spent much of his boyhood at Ferry Farm in Stafford County near Fredericksburg.

Ferry services are provided by several different ferry companies at these piers.

New World First Ferry ( Macau ) provides services between Tsim Sha Tsui and Macau for 17 hours daily, at a frequency of up to every 30 minutes.

Heliport at the Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Pier, Hong Kong | Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Terminal

** Heliport at the Hong Kong-Macau Ferry Terminal

Strongly opposed to the abolitionists who sought to end slavery in the U. S., Booth attended the hanging on December 2, 1859, of abolitionist leader John Brown, who was executed for leading a raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry ( in present-day West Virginia ).

He also had a great interest in ferryboats, at his fiancee's suggestion, their marriage was performed on the Roaring Bull boat, part of the Millersburg Ferry, in the middle of the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania.

He participated in the capture of John Brown at Harpers Ferry.

While in Washington, D. C., to discuss government contracts, and in conjunction with his application for an appointment into the quartermaster department, Stuart heard about John Brown's raid on the U. S. Arsenal at Harpers Ferry.

Maj. Gen. Robert E. Lee, now commanding the armed forces of Virginia, ordered him to report to Colonel Thomas J. Jackson at Harper's Ferry.

* 1975 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.

* 2003 – The Staten Island Ferry boat Andrew J. Barberi runs into a pier at the St. George Ferry Terminal in Staten Island, killing 11 people and injuring 43.

Major floods in 1935 and 1936 resulted in a number of deaths, and washed out the Ferry Street Bridge ( now the Clinton Street Bridge ).

* Francis T. Evans Elementary School ( 6720 Old Alexander Ferry Road, Clinton )

Ferry service connects the community with Catawba Island, Kelleys Island, Port Clinton, and Sandusky, Ohio.

The fair has such a local impact, that Island Transit will run special shuttles between Langley and the Clinton Ferry, as well as Shuttles between Oak Harbor and Langley, and extra ferry trips on the Clinton to Mukilteo run routinely at several hours.

In 1783, at Dobbs Ferry, Clinton and Washington negotiated with General Sir Guy Carleton for the evacuation of the British troops from their remaining posts in the United States.

The South Fork begins in the Ozark National Forest near Scotland in Van Buren County and flows into Greers Ferry Lake near Clinton.

By the 1840s, Clinton Hill, and its sister neighborhood Fort Greene had become fashionable neighborhoods for the wealthy of Brooklyn, who could commute to Manhattan by way of stagecoach to the Fulton Ferry in nearby Brooklyn Heights.

The area contains many old and historic building and sites, including Castle Garden, originally the fort Castle Clinton, Bowling Green, the old United States Customs House, now the National Museum of the American Indian, Federal Hall, where George Washington was inaugurated as the first U. S. President, Fraunces Tavern, New York City Hall, the New York Stock Exchange, renovated original mercantile buildings of the South Street Seaport ( and a modern tourist building ), the Brooklyn Bridge, South Ferry, embarkation point for the Staten Island Ferry and ferries to Liberty Island and Ellis Island, and Trinity Church.

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Brooklyn Community Board 2 is a local governmental body in the New York City borough of Brooklyn that encompasses the neighborhoods of Downtown Brooklyn, Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Vinegar Hill, Fulton Mall, Boerum Hill, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Fulton Ferry, and Clinton Hill.

Brooklyn Community Board 2 includes Brooklyn Heights, DUMBO, Vinegar Hill, Fulton Mall, Boerum Hill, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Fulton Ferry, and Clinton Hill.

The New Ferry Building, built in the Art Deco style to replace an earlier one, was renovated in 2008, but remains only partially accessible to the general public.

Building good relations with local Native Americans Hualapai Nation and white settlers, he discovered the Crossing of the Fathers, Lee's Ferry in 1858 and Pierce Ferry ( later operated by, and named for, Harrison Pierce ) – the latter two the only two sites suitable for ferry operation.

Upstream are smaller pedestrian ferries, for example Hampton Ferry and Shepperton to Weybridge Ferry the last being the only non-permanent crossing that remains on the Thames Path.

In the Battle of Bull's Ferry, Wayne's troops were unable to capture the position, suffering 64 casualties, while inflicting only 21 on the loyalist defenders.

It is one of only two U. S. highways with a ferry connection ( the Cape May – Lewes Ferry, between Lewes, Delaware, and Cape May, New Jersey ); the other being US 10.

The Wright's Ferry Bridge, which opened in 1972, only served to divert traffic around Columbia.

Other communities include Elm Grove, Gatlinsville, Greens Cross, Hexlena, Perrytown, Pine Ridge, Sans Souci ( with Sans Souci Ferry, the county's only ferry ), Spring Branch, Trap, Woodard, Baker Town, Whites Cross, Rosemead, and Todds Cross.

The Ferry Inn was open for business with a makeshift bar only three weeks later.

Reedham Ferry, a chain ferry just outside the village, is the only road crossing point on the River Yare between Norwich and Great Yarmouth.

At first, it was the only community of Prince of Wales Island to receive ferry access from the Alaska Marine Highway, but in 2002, the Marine Highway ceased service to Hollis in lieu of the new Inter-Island Ferry Authority ( IFA ).

The only public school within the Watkinsville city limits is Colham Ferry Elementary School.

The only remaining medieval entrance gate of Schoonhoven is the Veerpoort ( Ferry Gate ) next to the Lek River ( see external link 4 ).

Merrimack was officially incorporated in 1746, a year largely regarded as Merrimack's birthday, although only the southern portion ( primarily what is known as Thornton's Ferry ) of the current boundaries of town was included in the original town, with the northern portion of what is now Merrimack ( primarily what is known as Reed's Ferry ) being added a few years later.

Since Little Ferry does not have its own high school, for grades 9-12, public school students attend Ridgefield Park High School, in Ridgefield Park only a couple of minutes away, as part of a sending / receiving relationship with the Ridgefield Park Public Schools that has been in place since 1953.

Until the nearby bridge ( Now part of I-86 ) opened Oct 30, 1982, the Bemus-Stow Ferry was the only way to cross Chautauqua Lake.

Currently, the Kelleys Island Ferry is the only line that runs year-round ( weather permitting ) between the island and the mainland.

The only physical link to the town's past is the Tamaha Jail and Ferry Landing, listed on the National Register of Historic Places ( NR 80003266 ).

In the 1780s, after the South Carolina General Assembly decided to move the state capital from Charleston to the central part of the state, Stateburg lost by only a few votes to a place called Granby's Ferry on the Congaree River near the confluence of the Broad and Saluda rivers.

The only other place at which vehicles can cross the navigable channel is at Martham Ferry, where a nineteenth century bridge was replaced in the early 1920s by a floating swing bridge.

They wanted the High Street factory only as a warehouse ( Ferry Works was not acquired ), but allowed the service side of AC to continue.