Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Quarter
The thirty-third quarter to be released as part of the United States Mint America the Beautiful Quarters Program will be the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Quarter. It will be released mid 2016 as the third quarter of that year.
There will be several design candidates for each of the 2016 quarters that should be released sometime in 2015. However, the final design for the Harper’s Ferry Quarter will likely not be known until late in that year. Several individuals and groups will review the designs such as the Citizen’s Coinage Advisory Committee and the Commission of Fine Arts. These bodies will submit their design recommendations to the Secretary Treasury, who has the final say on the design for the quarter.
The Harpers Ferry National Historical Park Quarter is just one of fifty-six coins to be issued in the series by the Mint. The program actually started in 2010 and will continue until 2021 at a rate of five coins issued per year.
Two quarters will be released before the Harper’s Ferry National Historical Park Quarter in 2016. These two are the Shawnee National Forest Quarter and the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park Quarter. Following the Harper’s Ferry Quarter will be the Theodore Roosevelt National Park Quarter and the Fort Moultrie Quarter.
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park information
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park of West Virginia holds a full history, not only from the Native Americans that lived there years before Europeans settled to even more recent history.
Robert Harper was in charge of a ferry service on the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers in this area which is why the park is named Harpers Ferry.
Making the site even more historical is the fact that the Lewis and Clark Expedition began in Harpers Ferry. Also, during the American Civil War the location was so pivotal that forces fought and gained possession of the area eight times.
Harpers Ferry makes it easy for tourists to travel between states. The Appalachian Trial connects with Harpers Ferry, allowing visitors to walk from town to the border of Maryland in just a short time.