On the Savannah River between Elbert Co., GA, and Abbeville Dist., SC, was a Harper's Ferry, just north of Van's Creek which runs into the river. Now the area is covered by the Richard B. Russell Reservoir. Reference: THE OLD HOME PLACE: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION OF FIVE FARM SITES ALONG THE SAVANNAH RIVER, GEORGIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA, by Marlesa A. Gray, Wapora, Inc., funded by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Savannah Distict, RUSSELL PAPERS, 1983, Archelogical Services, Atlanta, GA, National Park Service. p. 55: "The origins of the Harper site, earliest of the ones investigated, still remain partially unknown...first inhabitants were Lyndsey Harper and wife Jane Harris Harper...as early as 1817...but [possibly] 1808. [his] father was Henry Harper who moved to Edinburg, GA, from Albemarle Co., VA, prior to 1792...started a ferry in Edinburgh..." [MY NOTE: Edinburg is east of Ruckersville, GA. There was another ferry, Bowman's or McGowen's Ferry nearer to Edinburg, north of Harper's Ferry.] On p. 58 is a chart of the Henry Harper [1753-1819] and Martha_____Harper family through son Lyndsey and Jane Harris Harper. {MY NOTE: many researchers say Martha was a Gaines.} Perhaps you can find the booklet in your library. I do not have a copy of it myself; a researcher, now deceased, sent me information from it. Ann Harper Bonner in north Louisiana [email protected]