• Sunrise at Harpers Ferry

    Harpers Ferry

    National Historical Park WV,VA,MD

The Election of 1860 Student Vodcasts

In 2010, forty-seven students at Harpers Ferry Middle School continued a new tradition of making video podcasts (or vodcasts) for Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. In this series of videos, the students tell the story of the Election of 1860.

Click to view the vodcasts below. Please note that the file format is .mov.

The Election of 1860: The Candidates
The Election of 1860: The Nation and The Issues
Election Day!
Harpers Ferry, 1860
Lincoln Lately

The vodcasts are also available on YouTube.

Did You Know?

Intake arches channeled water to power industry on Virginius Island.

Virginius Island was a thriving 19th-century industrial town along the Shenandoah River. By 1859, there were about three dozen buildings there.