Leavenworth (Meaning: Stable Settlement)
Hello! Today I am going to write a post, not about a person, but a place. That place is Leavenworth Washington (Meaning; From the Farm). Leavenworth means stable settlement, and it sure is. The town started as a little mining town called Icicle Flats. The mines were plentiful... until they weren't. Leavenworth was going to be a ghost town. But, the city was swooped out of death when a decision was made. The town would turn into a Bavarian themed village, and the hills around Leavenworth were asking for it! So, Leavenworth was renovated into the town it is today. My family and I went to Leavenworth just recently on a vacation. We stayed two nights there, and besides for the horrendous heat and the smoke, it was glorious. Growing up in that area we had been there a few times before. We had come to the famous Christmas Lighting Festival when I was younger, and other time we came and just walked through town. We never really explored it like we did this time, and so we...