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Storer College was a Historically Black College located in Harpers Ferry in Jefferson County , West Virginia . The college was founded in 1867 by the Home Mission Society of the Free Baptist Church. Storer was the first college for blacks in West Virginia . The town of Harpers Ferry was chosen because of its relationship with Abolitionist John Brown . Abolitionist and Freewill Baptist clergyman, Oren B. Cheney , who also founded Bates College in Maine, raised much of the original funding for the school. Unlike most such colleges, Storer simply closed its doors almost immediately following the United States Supreme Court decision to desegregate education, considering its mission to have been accomplished. The school closed in 1955 . In 1964 , the moveable physical assets of the college were transferred to the historically white Alderson-Broaddus College , a Baptist college, and the college's endowment was transferred to Virginia Union University , an historically black institution. Records of the college are maintained by Virginia Union and by Howard University . Virginia Union considers graduates of the college to be alumni of VUU. The campus of the college is now maintained as a part of the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park . PROMINENT ALUMNI, STAFF AND PROFESSORS
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