1961 Map of Leavenworth

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Leavenworth serves as a dense municipal and institutional hub along the western bank of the Missouri River in this early 1960s revision. The city is flanked by a significant concentration of state and federal infrastructure, including the Fort Leavenworth Military Reservation and Sherman Army Airfield to the north, and the Kansas State Penitentiary near Lansing to the south. The landscape is characterized by a sophisticated transport network where the Union Pacific and Chicago Great Western railroads intersect with the river’s passage, punctuated by the Centennial Bridge (Toll).