Editing Harpers Ferry, West Virginia (section)

==== Canals ====
[[File:Harpers Ferry before the railroad.jpg|thumb|The Potomac Canal at Harper's Ferry.]]
Harpers Ferry's first man-made transportation facility was the [[Potomac Canal]]. The canal ceased transportation in 1828, but a portion of it in front of the town channeled river water to run machinery for the armory.

The Potomac Canal ran on the [[Virginia]] side of the river. On the [[Maryland]] side, the later [[Chesapeake and Ohio Canal]] and the [[Baltimore and Ohio Railroad]] competed for right-of-way on a very narrow patch of land downstream from Harpers Ferry.