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Mayar was later elected as the first mayor of Leavenworth when the town was incorporated in 1906. [3] [6] The newspaper's editors during this period were Deed and his son Julian, who later enlisted in the U.S. Navy during World War I. [7] Mayar retired in 1919 and sold the newspaper to the Echo Publishing Company (EPC). [3]
Leavenworth is straddled by the Gerald R. Ford Expressway, roughly dividing the neighborhood into a business district in the east and a residential area in the west. The neighborhood is home to the Omaha Children's Museum, a popular attraction in the midtown area. Leavenworth is also home to the historic Mary Rogers Kimball House.
Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery, a cemetery on the base; Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility, often referred to as Leavenworth, a military prison built on the grounds of Fort Leavenworth; United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, often referred to as Leavenworth, a civilian medium security prison built in the town of Leavenworth, Kansas
In U.S. Army terms, rows of once spectacular homes that have graced historic Fort Leavenworth for more than 100 years stand in defeat. Like downtrodden troops, grand houses of red brick or yellow ...
The Leavenworth Ski Hill is a small ski area and an historic district located at the end of Ski Hill Drive in Leavenworth, Washington, United States. The facility is located inside the Wenatchee National Forest. Operated by Leavenworth Winter Sports Club, the facility includes two small downhill ski hills, 26 km of cross-country ski trails, a ...
A new town was established there in 1893 and named Leavenworth for Charles Leavenworth, a Portland-based land investor with the Okanogan Investment Company who surveyed the site and laid its streets. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] Leavenworth was a relative of U.S. Army colonel Henry Leavenworth , the founder of Fort Leavenworth and namesake of Leavenworth ...
The Crisis, Crawford County’s first newspaper, was begun in Leavenworth in 1839. In 1835, Zebulon started a stage line from Leavenworth to the new state capitol in Indianapolis, a route intended primarily for students going to the new State College in Bloomington (later Indiana University) and for boatmen returning from downriver.
Location of Leavenworth County in Kansas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Leavenworth County, Kansas. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States. The locations of National Register ...