Another Endangered List Update: Murphy Farm Saved! State preservationists got some good news this Fall with the announcement that the entire 99-acre Murphy Farm at Harpers Ferry would be purchased by the nonprofit Trust for Public Land on behalf of the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. This purchase will rescue the Murphy Farm, site of the climactic 1862 Confederate attack and capture of Harpers Ferry, from being developed into a 188-house residential subdivision. The Murphy Farm (like the Cass site, above) was featured on the 2002 PAWV “Most Endangered Sites” list, and the PAWV is pleased to note a happy outcome to this critical West Virginia historic preservation issue.