[decimon]

There are some pictures and a video at the link.

[Hegemony Cricket]

bump for later

[Bringbackthedraft]

I guess its safe to say it isn’t Kim Jong-il’s diggers coming up from North Korea?

[centurion316]

I didn’t know that this existed, but I doubt the Channel 5 speculation that this was somehow connected to the Underground railroad. Leavenworth used to be a wild and wooly town, gambling, alcohol, prostitution, you name it - right here in River City. I’m sure that there was a need for certain commercial enterprises to be out of sight of the law. Mind you, the local law enforcement types weren’t a problem, they had a piece of the action.

[bcsco]

According to Wikipedia, the town was established in 1854, 27 years after the establishment of Ft. Leavenworth just to the North.

This was the same year (1854) the Kansas-Nebraska Act which allowed the citizens to decided whether to allow slavery in the two territories it established. Lecompton, KS (essentially pro-slavery governments) was the territorial capital, but abolitionists set up an opposition government in Topeka. A mini-Civil War broke out between Border Ruffians who supported slavery and Free-Soilers who opposed it. However, not a large number of slaves ever lived in the territories. John Brown got his start here and the war was what coined the phrase “Bleeding Kansas”.

I suppose it could be that homesteaders in Leavenworth felt obliged to provide shelter for themselves and possibly slaves seeking freedom by building underground facilities. But this seems far-fetched.

[RikaStrom]

for home

[nkycincinnatikid]

A bunker for Boss Prendergast while he was running the Truman Presidency from Leavenworth?

[Deaf Smith]

They found a similar set up under downtown McKinney, Texas a few years ago.

[ExGeeEye]

When I was a kid in the early '70s, we lived out in Washington State. For entertainment we'd go to Seattle. We knew about "underground, old Seattle", damaged in an earthquake, abandoned and built over, but never actually went there.