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Leavenworth, WA - 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 2489. 47% of Leavenworth’s inhabitants are Male, and 53 are female. 50.4% of Leavenworth is married and 59.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $408,170, and the average rent is $850. Household median income in Leavenworth is $58,523, and the individual median income is $36,890. Leavenworth’s Ethnic is the following: White(90%), Hispanic(6.4%), Asian(4.6%), Multiple(2.7%), Other(1.6%), Black(0.9%), Native(0.2%).
The construction of the Great Northern Railway through the Tumwater Canyon in 1892 brought settlers to a townsite that was named "Leavenworth". Lafayette Lamb arrived in 1903 from Clinton, Iowa, to build the second largest sawmill in Washington state. Leavenworth was officially incorporated on September 5, 1906.
A small timber community, it became a regional office of the Great Northern Railway in the early 1900s. The railroad relocated to Wenatchee in 1925, greatly affecting Leavenworth's economy. The city's population declined well into the 1950s as the lumber mills closed and stores relocated.The city looked to tourism and recreation as a major economy as early as 1929, when they opened a ski jump.
In 1962, the Project LIFE (Leavenworth Improvement For Everyone) Committee was formed in partnership with the University of Washington to investigate strategies to revitalize the struggling logging town. The theme town idea was created by two Seattle businessmen, Ted Price and Bob Rodgers, who had bought a failing cafe on Highway 2 in 1960.
Price was chair of the Project LIFE tourism subcommittee, and in 1965 the pair led a trip to a Danish-themed town, Solvang, California, to build support for the idea. The first building to be remodeled in the Bavarian style was the Chikamin Hotel, which owner LaVerne Peterson renamed the Edelweiss after the state flower of Bavaria.
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