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Leavenworth

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Leav·en·worth  (lvn-wûrth)
A city of northeast Kansas on the Missouri River northwest of Kansas City. Settled in 1854 by proslavery partisans from Missouri, it is near Fort Leavenworth, the site of a federal penitentiary. Population: 35,000.
Leavenworth [ˈlɛvənˌwɜːθ -wəθ]
n
(Placename) a city in NE Kansas, on the Missouri River: the state's oldest city, founded in 1854 by proslavery settlers from Missouri. Pop.: 38 495 (1990)


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At present we shall stop with him at Cantonment Leavenworth, the frontier post of the United States; where he arrived on the 27th of September.
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