The Leavenworth County Historical Society has been collecting, preserving and promoting the history of the first city of Kansas for nearly 65 years. And the organization has plans to expand its operation. The LCHS has launched a campaign to build and endow a research center of early Kansas history at the Carroll Mansion Museum, home of the organization. The LCHS finalized architectural plans last summer for the research center, which will be built on to the existing museum at 1128 Fifth Ave. The new facility will provide archival storage of artifacts, including the organization's rare collection of 30,000 glass plate negatives of early Leavenworth...
