* Leavenworth County, Kansas ( southwest )

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

Leavenworth County was a prohibition, or " dry ", county until the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 and voters approved the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with a 30 % food sales requirement.

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.

Forth Leavenworth was also the origin of the Buffalo Soldiers who were originally members of the U. S. 10th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army, formed on September 21, 1866 at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

The 10th Cavalry Regiment was formed at Fort Leavenworth under the command of Col. Benjamin H. Grierson.

Activity by British traders and the presence of a colony on the Red prompted the United State War Department in 1819 to send Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Leavenworth from Detroit to put a post 300 miles northwest of Prairie Du Chien, until then the most advanced United States post.

: 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.

Following reports in the 1820s of Cheyenne and other tribes ' raids on parties on the Santa Fe Trail, US Army troops were sent out from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas to protect settlers on the trail.

In 1819, on what is now Picnic Island on the south bank of the Minnesota River, Colonel Henry Leavenworth built a stockade fort called " St. Peter's Cantonment " or " New Hope ," where materials were assembled for the construction of Fort Snelling to be built on the bluff on the north bank.

The fort was located outside the city limits of Leavenworth until it was annexed by the city on April 12, 1977.

Two radio stations are licensed to the city: KKLO broadcasts from Leavenworth on 1410 AM, playing a Religious format ; KQRC-FM broadcasts from Mission, Kansas on 98. 9 FM, playing a Rock format.

" Old Leavenworth " ( the original town, now practically abandoned ) was almost completely wiped out by the huge 1937 Ohio River flood, as it was built directly on the floodplain.

Another dramatic event occurred during the Civil War, on Little Blue Island, about a mile from Leavenworth.

Dressed as Federal troops, they crossed the Ohio River on horseback a few miles downstream from Leavenworth, then struck out for Paoli, pretending to be in pursuit of Union deserters.

In addition to button manufacturers, a river boatman, druggist, tinner, telephone operator, fruit distiller, bank clerk, butcher, hotel proprietor, hotel cook, dressmaker, cabinet maker, blacksmith, attorney, Methodist minister, commercial fisherman, dentist, music teacher, ship's carpenter, and freight agent were all listed on the 1910 census as resident in Leavenworth.

Their enlistment was over, and they were on their way to Fort Leavenworth to be dismissed from service.

The Leavenworth, Pawnee, and Western Railroad Company subsequently bought all of the remaining land on January 7, 1886.

It was built for K-12 on the southeast corner of 155th Street and Leavenworth Road.

The original town of Journeycake was officially platted as Stranger on July 11, 1867, and recorded at the Leavenworth County Courthouse.

Holbrook was a distinguished graduate of the Infantry-Cavalry School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas on July 2, 1905 and then attended the Staff College, Fort Leavenworth until July 25, 1906.