Jefferson County Courthouse Where John Brown Was TriedPhoto by Roger Dean Meyer, September 30, 2006
Marker is in Charles Town, West Virginia, in Jefferson County, at the intersection of North George Street and East Washington Street (U.S. 340), on the right when traveling north on North George Street.
Jonathan Roos, "Iowans Gear Up for Civil War Events," DesMoines Register On-line, July 16, 2007 (Excerpt)
[Iowa] State historians are hot on the trail of abolitionist John Brown, documenting the 15 Iowa stops he made after returning with a dozen freed slaves from raids in Kansas and Missouri. . . .
"That was a big event before the elections in 1860," when Abraham Lincoln won the presidency, said Lowell Soike, deputy state historic preservation officer.
Brown's Iowa stops included one at the Jordan House in what is now West Des Moines.
A meeting is scheduled for this week with Kansas and Nebraska officials to see whether those states would be interested in marking their portions of the route taken by Brown's raiding party. Image source: The Weekly Gazette [Davenport, Iowa], Nov. 1877.
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