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The Historical Society has been collecting and preserving Leavenworth County history for nearly 70 years and offers a treasure trove of artifacts and information for the study of that history. The centerpiece of myriad collections is the 30,000-piece glass negative collection, taken by pioneer photographers in Leavenworth, which is considered ...
By the 1840s, travel to Oregon and California had begun and thousands of wagons passed through Fort Leavenworth on the way to the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. In 1854, the City of Leavenworth was founded as the very first city of Kansas.
EVENTS. SMALL MALL: The 2024 Holiday Small Mall will be Saturday, December 7, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, December 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the C.W. Parker Carousel Museum (320 S. Esplanade, Leavenworth, KS 66048; 913-682-1331).
Leavenworth County Historical Society featuring The Carroll Mansion Museum. You can search our database prints of people from historical glass plate negatives and even get prints of the images.
DOWNTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT. Leavenworth's 45-block downtown was planned in 1854 and in its first two decades commerce boomed. Most of the City's early stores were built in "blocks" with multiple storefronts and common upper areas.
Inside is a diverse, yet cohesive, array of exhibits, displays, collections, and collectibles—more than one thousand!—that tell a balanced story of Leavenworth, the first city incorporated in the then-new State of Kansas in 1854.
This page includes the city’s eight National Register Historic Districts and eight additional National Register properties associated with the early development of the first city of Kansas and the opening of the western frontier of the United States.
