Camp Leavenworth

Historical marker location:

206 US-70, Kingston, Oklahoma

( Marker is on U.S. 70 west of Willis Street, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 1949

This frontier post was named for Brigadier General Henry Leavenworth, commander of the Dragoon Expedition through Oklahoma in 1834. Leavenworth died nearby after being injured in a buffalo hunt. Some historians call the 1834 expedition the greatest expeditionary force in the annals of the US Army.