John Brown Pike

ID: 716
This file appears in: Governor Beriah Magoffin

After John Brown's raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in October, 1859, secessionist Virginian Edmund Ruffin sent a pike to each of the slave state governors, including Kentucky's Beriah Magoffin, with the attached memo: "Sample of the favors designed for us by our northern brethren." Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Governor Beriah Magoffin

By Sanders
Historical Marker #786 in Magoffin County commemorates the county being named for Beriah Magoffin, one of Kentucky's Civil War governors. A Harrodsburg lawyer, Magoffin became governor of…