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Leavitt, California
Leavitt is an unincorporated community in Lassen County, California, United States. It is located alongside the Southern Pacific Railroad east of Susanville, and 7 miles west of Litchfield, at an elevation of .〔
Leavitt was named for Benjamin Hanson Leavitt (1834–1918), a pioneer rancher and lumberman who came from the state of Maine, born to a father who was a Maine farmer and a mother from New Brunswick, Canada, and who settled in Lassen County in 1864.〔(Fairfield's Pioneer History of Lassen County, California, Containing Everything that Can Be Learned About It from the Beginning of the World to the Year of Our Lord 1870, Asa Merrill Fairfield, Published for the Author by the H.S. Crocker Company, San Francisco, 1916 )〕 Benjamin Leavitt was a descendant of Samuel Leavitt of Exeter, New Hampshire.
Benjamin Leavitt engineered the Honey Lake Valley irrigation system, including Leavitt Lake.〔(Lassen County News, Dec. 14, 2004 )〕 Leavitt also named nearby Clinton, California, for his hometown of Clinton in Kennebec County, Maine.〔 ((Google Books) )〕 (The town was renamed Leavitt Lake in 1973 when house construction began there.)〔(Lassen County Office of Education )〕 Benjamin Leavitt was married to Celara Cleveland (Edwards) Leavitt, born in Massachusetts.
A post office at Leavitt was established in October 1914, and named after May F. Leavitt, the first postmaster. It was discontinued in December 1920.〔Salley, Harold E. (1991) ''History of California Post Offices, 1849–1990'', p. 116. The Depot, ISBN 0-943645-27-1〕
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