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Leavenworth, IN - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Leavenworth  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Leavenworth Home page. The Leavenworth Home page provides as much information as possible on Leavenworth. Knowing Leavenworth’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Leavenworth’s Home page, you will also find Leavenworth’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Leavenworth has a population of 406. 46.1% of Leavenworth’s inhabitants are Male, and 53.9 are female. 47.8% of Leavenworth is married and 78.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $87,080, and the average rent is $325. Household median income in Leavenworth is $46,750, and the individual median income is $20,341. Leavenworth’s Ethnic is the following: White(89.9%), Multiple(5.2%), Hispanic(4.2%), Other(3.9%), Black(1%).


The river's waters began to rise in January 1937. Record rainfalls by late January resulted in a huge flood, the most destructive in the Ohio Valley's history. Of 145 houses in Leavenworth, twenty floated away and sixty-five were lifted off their foundations. Four hundred of the town’s population of 418 were forced to evacuate.Laborers enlisted by Franklin Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) salvaged what they could, but when the waters receded, it was decided to move what was left of Leavenworth uphill.


Under the direction of Indiana Work Relief Administrator John K. Jennings, the town decided to relocate to the top of the bluff, rendering "Old" Leavenworth a ghost town. Rebuilding was complete by December 1938. Leavenworth was then the only completely rebuilt community in Indiana, though in the 1950s and 1990s, English was ravaged by floods on the Blue River and eventually relocated to higher ground in the mid 1990s, the second largest relocation of a town in U.S.


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