* Leavenworth County, Kansas ( southwest )

Leavenworth County ( county code LV ) is a county located in Northeast Kansas, in the Central United States.

Leavenworth County was formed on August 30, 1866 from free territory and is among the first 33 counties, which were formed by the first territorial government.

Leavenworth County had the first Kansas State University extension agent in the State.

Leavenworth County is divided into ten townships.

* Leavenworth County ( east )

* Leavenworth County ( southeast )

Great amenities to Crawford County are Patoka Lake and State Reservoir which lies in and along the northwest border of the county and extends into Orange County and Dubois County, Hemlock Cliffs in the Hoosier National Forest just southwest of the Grantsburg ( south of English ) area, Marengo Cave in Marengo, Wyandotte Cave just east of Leavenworth and the Blue River which runs along the eastern border of the county through Milltown and bordering with Harrison County.

Leavenworth is the largest city in and the county seat of Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States.

Leavenworth, along with the rest of Leavenworth County, lies within the Kansas City metropolitan area.

As the county seat, Leavenworth is the administrative center of Leavenworth County.

* History of Leavenworth County Kansas ; Jesse Hall and LeRoy Hand ; Historical Publishing ; 684 pages ; 1921.

* Leavenworth County Historical Society

* Leavenworth County Map, KDOT

Category: Populated places in Leavenworth County, Kansas

In 1880, the county seat of Crawford County was relocated from Leavenworth to English.

Leavenworth is a town in Jennings Township, Crawford County, Indiana, along the Ohio River.

The Crisis, Crawford County ’ s first newspaper, was begun in Leavenworth in 1839.

In the United States the first water caterpillar was patented in 1839 by William Leavenworth of New York.

When World War I began he immediately requested an overseas assignment but was again denied and then assigned to Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas.

He was soon transferred to the newly formed 1st Cavalry Regiment ( 1855 ) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, where he became regimental quartermaster and commissary officer under the command of Col. Edwin V. Sumner.

Stuart returned in September to Fort Leavenworth and was reunited with his wife.

The Pony Express was a mail delivery system of the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express Company of 1849 which in 1850 became the Central Overland California and Pikes Peak Express Company.

One of his significant contributions as head of the Army was the establishment of the Command School ( now the Command and General Staff College ) at Fort Leavenworth.

By 2011, the school was ready for new quarters, moving into the newly renovated Muir Hall at Fort Leavenworth on 30 August 2011.

In April 1908, he was posted to Fort Leavenworth, where he was given his first command, Company K, 3rd Engineer Battalion.

New facilities were built, including the penitentiary at Leavenworth in 1895, and a facility for women located in West Virginia, at Alderson was established in 1924.

He was sentenced to three more years and eventually served over five and a half years in Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary.

He attended the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1935 and 1936, and the Army War College in 1938 and 1939, after which he was posted to the War Department General Staff.

He attended the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1935 and 1936, after which he was posted to Kansas City, Missouri, as assistant to the commander of the Missouri River Division.

He surrendered to Federal agents at the Mexican border and was sent to the United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth to serve his sentence September 1920 as Inmate # 15461.

This earned him the respect of U. S. officials and he was sent to the United States to study, despite his poor English, at the U. S. Command and General Staff College at Leavenworth, Kansas.

On March 31, 1971, Calley was sentenced to life imprisonment and hard labor at Fort Leavenworth, which includes the United States Disciplinary Barracks, the Department of Defense's only maximum security prison.

On April 1, 1971, only a day after Calley was sentenced, U. S. President Richard Nixon ordered him transferred from Leavenworth prison to house arrest at Fort Benning, pending appeal.

Instead, at Calley's request, he was released at West Gate and taken directly to the Fort Leavenworth airfield, where his escort had him flown home.

Ordered to march with Kearny's army back east, Frémont was arrested on August 22, 1847 when they arrived at Fort Leavenworth.

It was named, as was its county seat, after Henry Leavenworth, an officer in the War of 1812.

The county seat was in Leavenworth for several decades but eventually moved to English.

: c. SAASS's first director, Colonel William Fortner, stated in 1991 that the new school ( originally called the School of Advanced Airpower Studies ) " will be similar to the Army's School of Advanced Military Studies at Fort Leavenworth ", with additional focuses on air power topics.

* " Army upgrades sergeant's award to Silver Star reflecting heroism in deadly ambush ", Fort Leavenworth Lamp, Page 14, April 15, 2004.

* Edward J. Sinclair, " Attack Helicopters: Airland Battle Future's Sword of Vengeance ", School of Advanced Military Studies, Fort Leavenworth, KS, January 1991

At Beverly, Missouri, in what is referred to locally as the " Beverly Curve ", it intersects Route 92 going east to Platte City, Missouri and west to Leavenworth, Kansas.

The spur, which is signed as " Route 45 " and also known as the " Leavenworth cutoff ", was built as a shortcut from Leavenworth, Kansas to Kansas City during the construction of the Centennial Bridge ( Leavenworth, Kansas ).