Modern archaeology and the underground
Underneath Leavenworth, Kansas, is a separate little city, complete with a street, windows, and doored storefronts. The TV reporter suggests it had something to do with the Underground Railroad, which makes no sense. A commentator on Aol.com gives a more likely explanation: out on the frontier, as a rip-roaring cowtown attempted to become safe for a proper middle class, saloons, brothels and other vice businesses literally went underground. The decent folk could walk around topside, being proud of their decent little town, while down below all hell was carryin' on.
What do you think?
Labels: archaeology, vice, weird
posted by Clemens @ 4:14 PM
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2 Comments:
Your suggestion makes more sense than the Underground Railway one...
Unless Leavenworth was an old Free Soiler settlement originally??
No, I don't think Leavenworth was much of anything except a cowtown before the civil war. So it must be something else. Having just listened to Neil Gaimon's "Neverwhere" - and watching the British TV adaptation of it ... all kinds of improbably explanations spring to mind: Leavenworth Above and Leavenworth below.
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