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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne is the county seat for Allen County
Fort Wayne is in Allen County
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Louis Mohr Block
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior
Built 1891 — — Map (db m197195) HM
The Aqueduct
Carrying the Wabash and Erie Canal across the St. Marys River was located just north of the bridge about where the Nickle Plate Railroad crosses the river and was the playground and swimminghole for the West End Boys. Completed . . . — — Map (db m99093) HM
Commandants 1680-1697; Jean Baptiste Vissat, Sieur DeVincnnes, Francois-Margane, Sieur DeVincennes. 1725; Ensign Douville,. 1734; Ensign DuBuison.
In 1747, savages burned the fort but it was rebuilt. M. DeRaimond was commandant in 1748.
. . . — — Map (db m232369) HM
Schmitz Block
c. 1888
has been placed on the
National Register
of Historic Places
by the United States
Department of the Interior — — Map (db m197145) HM
Established in 1846 as the Fort Wayne Female College on grounds donated by Wm. Rockhill.
In 1855 the college consolidated with the Fort Wayne Collegiate Institute for Young Men and it was then call the M.E. College.
In 1890 the college grounds . . . — — Map (db m100138) HM
St. Mother Theodore Guerin founded the first
catholic school in Fort Wayne on this site
in 1846. Her community, The Sisters of
Providence, taught young people of
Fort Wayne for over 125 years. She was canonized
a Saint October 15, 2006
. . . — — Map (db m197229) HM
The present Allen County Courthouse is the fourth to serve the county's judicial needs. Its cornerstone was laid on November 17, 1897, in the largest public ceremony held in Fort Wayne to that time. Louis Peltier, who had been born in the fort in . . . — — Map (db m162792) HM
In 1852 John Brown, a stonemason, built this last remaining vestige of the early canal era in FortWayne.
A native of Glasgow, Scotland, Brown came by canal boat to Allen County in 1847 with his wife Mary. He and his Scottish business partner, . . . — — Map (db m100141) HM
The Edsall House, the oldest structure in downtown Fort Wayne and the city's second hospital, was built by William S. Edsall in 1839. Edsall was a fur trader, builder, ferry operator, surveyor, sawyer and merchant, and was prominent in Fort Wayne . . . — — Map (db m215660) HM
The Embassy Theater is the last of
the great movie and stage houses in Fort
Wayne, and its restoration marks one of
the city's outstanding volunteer efforts.
Construction of the theater and the
adjoining Indiana Hotel was begun in
1926. . . . — — Map (db m197230) HM
The First French Fort
The French lived among the Miami at the Three Rivers as early as 1697 when Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes (d. 1719), and Francois Marie Bissot de Vincennes, the son of Jean Baptiste . . . — — Map (db m241262) HM
John Grimes constructed a house on this lot in 1842, and on March 13, 1854, he sold the place to Sion S. Bass and his wife, Eliza. Sion Bass had come to Fort Wayne in 1848 from Salem, Kentucky, and worked for the Ewing fur-trading enterprise. He was . . . — — Map (db m197189) HM
The Roman Catholic Parish of St. Paul was established at this site in 1864 for German-speaking Catholics of the then northwestern part of Fort Wayne.
Over the course of 138 years, this property also served the needs of St. Paul . . . — — Map (db m197185) HM
The Rotary Club of Fort Wayne was established January 9, 1915, when 35 local business professionals and community leaders held the Clubs first meeting at the former Commercial Club on Harrison Street in downtown Fort Wayne. In the 100 years since . . . — — Map (db m197194) HM
The intersection of Main and
Calhoun streets was the busiest corner in
Fort Wayne between the 1890s and the
1960s, for it was here, at the "Transfer
Corner,” that all the trolleys (and later
buses) converged from their various
routes.
. . . — — Map (db m197143) HM
Henry Rudisill, whose efforts had resulted in the establishment of Fort Wayne's first German Lutheran congregation in 1837, also initiated the founding of the community's first English-speaking Lutheran parish, the English Lutheran Church of the . . . — — Map (db m197187) HM
The Protestant Episcopal Assembly met May 26, 1839 with 17 charter members in Fort Wayne's courthouse. They built First Trinity Episcopal Church in 1847 on the northwest corner, Berry and Harrison Streets. Present Trinity Church built 1865, . . . — — Map (db m197191) HM
Edsall (1811-1876) was an early community leader, serving on the first City Council, and later was a land office register and County Clerk. He was also a fur trader, merchant, plank road and railroad builder in the Fort Wayne area and helped Fort . . . — — Map (db m215666) HM
donated to the City of Fort Wayne
by Consul-General of Japan in Chicago Naoki Ito
Sunday, May 20, 2018
as a gesture of goodwill and friendship
to celebrate the Fort Wayne Cherry Blossom Festival
Sign donated by:
Japanese American . . . — — Map (db m197149) HM
Illsley. "Illsley" was the name of the large estate of Frank Illsley Brown and Anna Bond Brown. Their stately Italianate home faced west toward the St. Mary's River and was surrounded by extensive gardens. The front of the property on . . . — — Map (db m225926) HM
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