Bavarian Village Index

History

In many ways the history of Leavenworth is the history of a typical western frontier town. Its evolution from a Native American salmon fishing ground and trading spot, to railroad boomtown, to fading rural small town is the picture of small town America west of the Mississippi.

But Leavenworth took the road less traveled and decided to recreate a Bavarian village in the middle of Washington State.

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