- City:
- Leavenworth, IN
- Site Type:
- Civic Facilities, Infrastructure and Utilities
- New Deal Agency:
- Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1937
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
The Town of Leavenworth is a historic Southern Indiana river town, known for manufacturing boats and buttons.
Nearly all of the homes in the town of Leavenworth, Indiana were destroyed by the Ohio River flood of 1937. Only a few brick buildings from the original town, including the former Leavenworth State Bank building and the former IOOF hall (at right in the newspaper picture of flood damage), remain in 2023.
The Works Progress Administration, with assistance from other organizations such as the American Red Cross, built a new town on the bluff overlooking the original site.
Source notes
Articles from Hoosier State Chronicles, Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, Indiana:
Indianapolis Times, 16 Dec 1937 p9c1
https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=IPT19381216.1.9&srpos=2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-leavenworth+AND+wpa------
Indianapolis Times, 8 Jun 1937 p1c1 https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=IPT19370608.1.1&srpos=4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-leavenworth+AND+wpa------
Indiana Journal, 24 Apr 1937
https://newspapers.library.in.gov/?a=d&d=TIJ19370422&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-leavenworth+AND+wpa------
Site originally submitted by Doug Logan on January 6, 2024.
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suzanne s wahline
Is it true that Emile J Bahr donated the land the “new” Leavenworth Ind was build on and that it was originally owned by his uncle George G Schlieder ?