Fort Leavenworth

noun

1. a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in E Kansas adjoining Leavenworth, one of the oldest (1827) military posts W of the Mississippi and site of federal penitentiary.

Example Sentences

In 1955, there was an outbreak at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, when I was in the second grade.

From Salon

He settled on the outskirts in one of the more conservative enclaves, a community that is home to some of the troops stationed at nearby Fort Leavenworth.

From Seattle Times

By the time the first trial of the Salk vaccine began in 1954, the polio outbreak at Fort Leavenworth had gotten so bad that they dropped the placebo from the test and just gave all of us the Salk vaccine shots.

From Salon

In 1954, when I was in the second grade in an elementary school at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, there was a polio outbreak.80 kids came down with polio within the first two months of the school year.

From Salon

“I was a prison guard at Fort Leavenworth,” Miller says.

From Los Angeles Times