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In the 1930s and 40s, Leavenworth
staged Pioneer Days celebrations, forerunners of the annual
Buffalo Bill Days celebrations which began in the late
1960s.
Crowds gathered on Delaware Street to view a 1948 parade
which included a number of wagons, carriages and a hearse,
right foreground.
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In 1885,
Leavenworth gave 640 acres south of the city for a home for disabled
Civil
War veterans. The first disabled soldier was admitted in 1885.
In 1893, the Immanuel Chapel, made famous in Ripley's 'Believe
It or Not,' was built on the grounds of what today is the Dwight
D. Eisenhower Veterans Affairs Medical Center."
In 1906, the first cellhouse of
the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary was opened. Among the infamous
criminals incarcerated here were George "Bugs" Moran,
Machine Gun Kelly and Robert Stroud, the Birdman of Alcatraz. This
imposing facility took
about 30 years to complete. |
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