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The '''Harpers Ferry Armory''', more formally known as the '''United States Armory and Arsenal at Harpers Ferry''', was the second federal armory created by the United States government. (The first was the [[Springfield Armory]].) It was located in [[Harpers Ferry]], [[Virginia]] (since 1863, [[West Virginia]]). It was both an [[arsenal]], manufacturing firearms, and an armory, a storehouse for firearms. Along with the Springfield Armory, it was instrumental in the development of [[machining]] techniques to make [[interchangeable parts]] of precisely the same dimensions.<ref>{{Hounshell1984}}</ref>
The Armory was a long, narrow complex of buildings, located alongside the [[Baltimore & Ohio Railroad]] line on a strip of land alongside the [[Potomac River]]. The entrance was close to the center of town, with its train station and hotels, and the bridge, the [[B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing]]. At its peak, just brfore the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], the Armory had 400 employees.<ref>{{cite book
|title=Cultural Landscape Report for the United States Armory and Potomac Riverfront, Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
|last=Lee
|first=Andrew S.
|year=2009
|publisher=[[Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation]], [[National Park Service]]
|location=Boston
|url=https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/hafe/armory_clr.pdf}}</ref>{{rp|185}}
During the Civil War, the Armory was destroyed and its equipment removed; it was not rebuilt. The only surviving building is its former fire engine house, known today as [[John Brown's Fort]]. As of 2021, it is not in its original location.
==History==
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