posted 9 May 2025
SWaN Investors are pleased to announce that access to the promontory overlook for the public to enjoy the iconic “Gap” view in Harpers Ferry is now open from dawn to dusk for pedestrian use only. To access the site, please enter the gate at the corner of Columbia and Washington streets. (Photo courtesy of Laurel Ziemianski.)
posted 6 Mar 2025
Harpers Ferry Water Works is pleased to announce Phase I of the Water Distribution System Upgrade, which will begin on or about 1 March 2025 and continue until early summer.
Residents can anticipate interruptions of service, boil water notices, and road blockages during this time.
Please take this time to have extra water on hand for drinking and make appropriate preparations.
Affected customers will be notified prior to disruption by a phone call and door hangers. If you should receive a notification, please pay close attention during this time to stay informed.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Harpers Ferry Water Works at 304-535-2206, option 1.
This project is being funded by a West Virginia Development Authority Economic Enhancement Grant of $2,928,500.
See the door hanger here.
Updated 5 Nov 2024
Thank you to our community members who have stepped up to the plate to join our various commissions and committees. There are still open opportunities to serve on the following:
Send a letter of interest to clerk@harpersferrywv.us or to the Corporation of Harpers Ferry, PO Box 217, Harpers Ferry WV 25425. All applicants must reside within the corporate limits of Harpers Ferry.
Please consider helping your community. Thank you!
WV Rivers Coalition has recognized Harpers Ferry with a Source Water Community award. Harpers Ferry and Marlinton are the first two communities in WV to receive this award. A water utility earns the designation as a Source Water Community if they take an active role in protecting the waters that serve as their drinking water source. To receive the designation of a Source Water Community, a water utility must partner with the community on source water protection projects and issue a Proclamation celebrating Drinking Water Week during the first week of May. Read more here.
Harpers Ferry has instituted three paid parking zones to improve safety and better regulate the very limited parking within the Corporation. Two of the zones, 7510 and 7520, are on Washington Street (Alt. U.S. 340). The third is on Potomac Street in Lower Town. The cost for parking is $2.00 per hour in Zones 7510 and 7520, and $3.00 per hour in Zone 7515. Parking may be purchased in half-hour segments. Payment may be made using the Parkmobile cell phone app. To use Parkmobile, open the app, enter zone number, select amount of time desired, and pay by major credit card or PayPal. Visitors may find it easier to download the app to their cell phones before visiting Harpers Ferry to simplify their parking experience at the following link: http://us.parkmobile.com/mobile-apps.
Paid parking is strictly enforced in all zones between 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Sunday through Saturday. Violators may be fined and / or towed. Parking is free in all paid parking zones after 6:00 p.m. and before 8:00 a.m. Sunday through Saturday.
All side streets within the Corporation of Harpers Ferry are parking by residential permit only. Violators may be fined and / or towed. Permits for residents and their guests may be purchased at Town Hall.
“The passage of the Patowmac through the Blue Ridge is perhaps one of the most stupendous scenes in Nature... worth a voyage across the Atlantic.” - Thomas Jefferson, 1783
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