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.

The state capital of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, was not the original capital. Guthrie served as the territorial capital from 1890 until statehood in 1907, when the capital was moved to Oklahoma City.