Storer College

Storer College was an historically black college located in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

The college was founded in 1867 by the Home Mission Society of the Free Baptist Church. It was the first college for blacks in West Virginia. The town of Harpers Ferry was chosen because of its relationship with abolitionist John Brown.

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, which was (and still is) a Baptist college, and the college's endowment was transferred to Virginia Union University which was (and still is) 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.