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John Brown Tannery Site
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Roadside view of the site
Location	500 feet south of the junction of Pennsylvania Route 77 and John Brown Road [17620 John Brown Rd.], Richmond Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1825
Built by	Brown, John
NRHP reference No.	78002383
Added to NRHP	December 14, 1978

John Brown Tannery Site, 17620 John Brown Rd., Guys Mills, PA 16327, is a historic archaeological site located at Richmond Township, Crawford County, Pennsylvania. The tannery was built in 1825 by famed abolitionist John Brown (1800–1859), who lived on the site from 1825 to 1835. It was a major stop on the Underground Railway; Brown helped some 2,500 slaves during this period. The site includes the ruins of the tannery, a one-story, rectangular structure measuring 55 feet by 22 feet. There was a hidden room for the fugitive slaves. A fire destroyed the building in 1907. It is open to the public as the John Brown Farm, Tannery & Museum.

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry

John Brown's raiders	Osborne Perry Anderson John Brown Owen Brown (son) Watson Brown John Anthony Copeland Jr. Barclay Coppock Edwin Coppock Shields Green John Henry Kagi Lewis Sheridan Leary Francis Jackson Meriam Dangerfield Newby Aaron Dwight Stevens

Other individuals	John Wilkes Booth Owen Brown (father) John Brown, Jr. James Buchanan John E.P. Daingerfield Israel Greene Thomas Wentworth Higginson Samuel Gridley Howe George Henry Hoyt Andrew Hunter Stonewall Jackson Robert E. Lee James M. Mason Richard Parker Theodore Parker Richard Realf James Redpath Franklin Benjamin Sanborn Secret Six Heyward Shepherd Gerrit Smith Lysander Spooner George Luther Stearns George H. Steuart J. E. B. Stuart Lewis Washington Walt Whitman Henry A. Wise

Locations	Allstadt House and Ordinary B & O Railroad Potomac River Crossing Charles Town, West Virginia Gibson-Todd House Harpers Ferry Armory Harpers Ferry, West Virginia Historic District John Brown's Fort Kennedy Farm Sandy Hook, Maryland Winchester, Virginia

Afterwards	Battle Hymn of the Republic Burning of Winchester Medical College Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Heyward Shepherd monument John Brown (biography) John Brown Farm State Historic Site John Brown House (Akron, Ohio) John Brown Museum John Brown Tannery Site John Brown's Body (poem) John Brown's Body (song) John Brown's last speech John Brown's Provisional Constitution The Last Days of John Brown A Plea for Captain John Brown Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown Tragic Prelude Virginia v. John Brown

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