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AXA Building
Fourth and Delaware
Leavenworth
Placed on the
National Register of Historic Places
3-16-72
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Photo D&VC 2-02
"Site of the Office of Russell, Majors, and Waddell, a famous freighting firm. In the years of 1855-1861, this firm was a major factor in the settlement of the west. Using thousands of teams, and both wagons and stagecoaches, it hauled supplies and passengers
to army posts and settlements west of Fort Leavenworth. Members of the firm started the Leavenworth & Pike's Peak Express Company, which later became the Central Overland California & Pike's Peak Express, parent company of the celebrated Pony Express of
1860-1861."
From the building's historic plaque. |