Recently, I made a short trip to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia as well as Richmond and located some quaint towns along the way. So, this month, we’ll be looking at historic Brunswick, Md., and quaint Ashland, Va.
US 340 in Maryland passes by historic Harpers Ferry, W.Va., a town of unparalleled importance in the events leading to the American Civil War. Once a significant mill and factory town, Harpers Ferry sits at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers and was the location in 1859 of a U.S. military arsenal. It was here that abolitionist John Brown, determined to seize the 100,000 weapons at the U.S. Arsenal and