No one could be more geographically challenged than I. I can't drive around the small town where I live without a map book open beside me. But Harper's Ferry I must rescue from obscurity. It may be small, but it is historically very important. Remember John Brown ? Also, in the earliest days of the CW Stonewall Jackson had a lot of fun capturing locomotives there to destroy or ship south for the Confederate cause. Later, when WV was being carved from the mother state (with highly questionable legality), the new state was jogged eastward a bit so that those B&O rail lines crossing into VA from MD at Harper's Ferry could be in Northern hands. Both H.F. and Loudoun County, VA, are west of D. C. Loudoun juts further north than any other VA county, but Clarke and Frederick counties lie west of it and H. Ferry. D. E. Mayfield