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Title
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Leavenworth, Kansas
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Description
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File contains among other items information on Colonel Henry Leavenworth (1783-1834), founder and namesake of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1827. Description of his life and career as a native of Connecticut becoming a New York state representative before being "ordered. ..to locate a site for a fort that would protect American pioneers from Indians on the western frontier" and being painted by artist George Catlin.
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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The Next Johnson County?
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Description
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Profile of Leavenworth County, Kansas, including ''Historic County Adjusts to New Growth,'' ''Prime Location and Transportation,'' ''The Economy and Thriving Growth,'' ''The Thriving Communities of Leavenworth County,'' ''Leavenworth County Economic Development Report,'' ''Cost of Living and Demographics,'' ''Elementary, Secondary and Higher Education,'' ''Healthcare,'' ''Lifestyle and Residential Real Estate,'' and ''Commercial and Industrial Real Estate.''
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Date
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2006-03-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Where Did the Names of Missouri and Kansas Counties Come From?
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Description
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Taken from The Kansas City Star. ''Cass County: Lewis Cass, brigadier general for the U.S. Army. Ran as the Democratic Candidate for President in 1848. Clay County: Politician Henry Clay, who played an important role in the negotiation of the Missouri Compromise.Jackson County: President Andrew Jackson.Johnson County: The Rev. Thomas Johnson, who established a mission for the Shawnee Indians in 1829.Leavenworth County: Fort Leavenworth. The fort was founded and named for Col. Henry H. Leavenworth.Platte County: Land inlcuded in the Platte Purchase in 1825, named after the Platte River.Wyandotte County: The Wyandotte Indian tribe. The tribe played an active role in the area, and Chief William Walker became the first provisional governor of the Kansas-Nebraska Territory.''
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Date
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2005-08-14
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Historical Landmarks, Trails & Monuments in and around Kansas City, Missouri
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Description
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Map created for the American Pioneer Trails Association with historical data provided by the Native Sons of Kansas City, Missouri, showing the locations of historical landmarks in the area. A Kawsmouth Chronology printed on the left hand side of the map provides a list of important dates in Kansas City history.
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Date
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1938
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Kansas City Metropolitan Area: Tour with Cities Service
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Description
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Road map of Kansas City and vicinity; indexes nearby cities and towns, points of interest, lakes, parks, rivers, airports, golf and country clubs. Reverse side includes maps of metropolitan Kansas City, downtown Kansas City, and a sight-seeing guide with suggested tours.
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Date
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1957
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Kansas City Metropolitan Area: For People Going Places
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Description
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Road map of Kansas City and vicinity; indexes nearby cities and towns, points of interest, lakes, parks, rivers, airports, golf and country clubs. Reverse side includes maps of metropolitan Kansas City, downtown Kansas City, and a sight-seeing guide with suggested tours.
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Date
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1962
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Kansas City and Vicinity
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Description
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Road map of Kansas City and vicinity, including Platte and Clay Counties, and Johnson, Wyandotte and Leavenworth Counties in Kansas. Indexes nearby cities and towns, points of interest, golf and country clubs, airports, lakes, and rivers. Reverse side features maps of metropolitan and downtown Kansas City, as well as a map of a suggested sight-seeing tour, with principal buildings and parks indicated.
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Date
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1962
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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Kansas City and Vicinity
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Description
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Road map of Kansas City and vicinity, including Platte and Clay Counties, and Johnson, Wyandotte and Leavenworth Counties in Kansas. Indexes nearby cities and towns, points of interest, golf and country clubs, airports, lakes, parks and rivers. Reverse side features maps of metropolitan and downtown Kansas City, as well as a map of a suggested sight-seeing tour, with major buildings and parks indicated.
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Date
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1961
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Object Type
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Map
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Title
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SC25 Kickapoo Reservation Survey Field Notes Finding Aid
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Description
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This collection consists of eight pages of handwritten notes describing a survey for the demarcation of Indian reservations in what are now Doniphan, Atchison, and Leavenworth counties in northeastern Kansas. Notes include a brief description of the survey's purpose, Public Land Surveying System (PLSS) township-range-section location data, surveyors' measurements, and physical descriptions of the benchmarks, landmarks, and monuments used by the surveyor. Pages are unnumbered.
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Date
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1854~
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Object Type
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Finding Aid
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Title
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Kansas City: Rise of a Regional Metropolis
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Description
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Explanation of the naming of these counties in Kansas: Johnson, Leavenworth, and Miami. Miami County was originally named Lykins County for Johnston Lykins.
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Date
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2002
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Samuel J. Kookogey in Bleeding Kansas
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Description
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A historical profile on Samuel J. Kookogey, delegate to the proslavery government of territorial Kansas from Leavenworth County. Originally from Columbus, Georgia, Kookogey took part in a plan to overthrow the Spanish government in Cuba before making his way to Kansas. He settled in Easton in 1855, shortly before violence broke out in the town between free-state and proslavery supporters. Kookogey was elected to the Lecompton Constitutional Convention in 1857 and died in 1862.
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Date
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2012
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Metropolitan Kansas City
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Description
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Map of the metropolitan Kansas City area, extending approximately thirty miles in each direction from downtown Kansas City, Missouri. Shows highways, major roads, parks, bodies of water, railroads, industrial areas, airports, suburban boundaries, county boundaries, and township and range grid. Map also depicts power and gas lines and water mains for areas outside the city limits of Kansas City, Missouri, and features radial circles at five mile intervals, centered on downtown Kansas City.
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Date
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1960
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Object Type
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Map
