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ENGINE HOUSE OF THE FEDERAL ARSENAL (John Brown’s Fort). Address – Shenandoah Street. The Engine House of the Federal Arsenal, commonly known as John Brown’s Fort, is the site where abolitionist John Brown and 21 men, 16 white and five black (Lewis Sheridan Leary, Dangerfield Newby, John Anthony Copeland, Jr., Shields Green and Osborn Perry Anderson) attempted to seize the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859 to free the slaves of Virginia. Since the battle, the Fort has been relocated several times, including on the Murphy Farm and the Storer College campus. The Fort is now located in lower town Harpers Ferry on Shenandoah Street. A monument now stands at the original site of the Fort (on the hillside of Potomac Street near the railroad station).