Leavenworth, KS Visitors Guide 2016 | Page 28

............................................................................................................................. COMMUNITY RESOURCES ............................................................................................................................. Hospitals Leavenworth Regional Catholic Schools 320 N Broadway Street 913-682-7801 Cushing St. Luke’s Hospital 711 Marshall Street 913-684-1100 St. Paul Lutheran School 320 N 7th Street 913-682-5553 Dwight D. Eisenhower Veterans Affairs Medical Center 4101 South 4th Street 913-682-2000 University of Saint Mary 4100 South 4th Street 913- 682-5151 Munson Army Health Center (No emergency services) 550 Pope Avenue, Fort Leavenworth, KS 66027 913-684-6650 National Cemeteries Leavenworth National Cemetery 150 Muncie Road This memorial site, which was established on January 22, 1886, is the final resting place of more than 35,000 veterans from the Civil War to the present time. It overlooks the Missouri River Valley from the highest ridge of the cemetery, was brought here on the Santa Fe Railroad and moved to its present location by a team of oxen from the state prison in Lansing in 1919. www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/leavenworth.asp Saint John Hospital 3500 S 4th Trafficway 913- 680-6000 Schools Fort Leavenworth USD #207 913-651-7373 Immaculate Catholic High School 600 Shawnee Street 913-682-3900 Kansas City Kansas Community College Pioneer Career Center 1901 Spruce Street 913-288-7750 Leavenworth USD 453 20 N 4th Street 913-684-1400 27 Fort Leavenworth National Cemetery One of the first of 14 national cemeteries established by Abraham Lincoln on July 17, 1862, this cemetery has 23,000 graves of veterans from every war since the War of 1812. Captain Thomas W. Custer, brother of George Armstrong Custer who died with his brother at the Little Big Horn in 1876, is buried here. He was the first person in history to receive two Medals of Honor, and is joined in the cemetery by nine other Medal of Honor recipients. www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/leavenworth.asp ........................................ .................................. ........................................ ................................. LEAVENWORTH