sideboardking at a made by the washington family. it is handcarved, beautifully decorated. here, we call it the table from fort lee. the president of the historic french society, which predates the museum -- there was a tornado that went through charleston during the 1890's, and in order to preserve these pieces of fort lee, he made into a table. and aa beautiful piece treasure. madeis a coverlet that was for a wedding in 1793. one of the very first in the collection. wet -- a west virginian, you know james as the inventor of the steamboat. this was his daughter. we are in the west virginia state museum, where we talk about harpers ferry and the rate on the harpers ferry armory, a raid on secured that facility. he wanted additional weapons. he figured slaves from the area would join and that would be the beginning of a movement. unfortunately for him, there was an african-american killed, the first person killed on the rate and other people from the town and that got people who were living in the area to combat john brown and try to stop he was trying to do. john brown is s