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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB54_flood-retention-walls_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
The concrete retention walls at the north end of the plaza will help downtown Fort Wayne withstand future flooding when the rivers rise. They were constructed where sandbaggers and volunteers worked during the flood of 1982 to build a dike to prot…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB4H_headwaters-park_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
Architect Eric R. Kuhne was commissioned to design a flood control plan that would provide for a park and premier festival center. It could also serve as a model for flood control in other sections of the country. The Headwaters Park Commission wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB4E_early-effort-to-build-a-park_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
Around the turn of the century, the nationwide "City Beautiful" movement found local expression through the efforts of Charles Mulford Robinson and nationallly known landscape architect George Kessler. Seeking to reclaim the natural beauty of our …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB4B_the-floods_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
Most often the rivers here brought prosperity. They are the reason humanbeings settled here; established a land portage to connect with the Wabash River system; and attracted the canal followed by rails, highways, industry, and homes. They brought…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB3L_jail-flats_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
Because of the often soggy conditions that discouraged use as either residential or commercial property, the area of Headwaters Park became known as the Jail Flats. The first jail in Allen County was a two-story hewn-log structure that was enclose…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB3K_duck-creek-early-industry-and-business-development_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
Fort Wayne business had a start on Duck Street, named for the 19th century Duck Creek that drained the area from the higher ground near Superior Street into the St. Mary's River. Along Duck Creek in the 1840s and 50s stood the City Mills, one of t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB3J_earliest-railroad_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
The Wabash & Erie Canal was instrumental in the construction of the first railways in Fort Wayne, which quickly became a railroading center in the Midwest. In 1852, along the canal at the present-day railroad elevation that borders the south edge …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB39_the-wabash-erie-canal_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
Anchoring the southern edge of the Headwaters Park "Thumb" until circa 1874, the Wabash & Erie Canal's importance to transportation to the western part of the United States and to the growth of Fort Wayne was substantial. Headwaters Park is on the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB32_little-turtle_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
Miami Chief Mishikinakwa or Me-she-kin-no-quah, known to the Euro-Americans as Little Turtle, born circa 1747, played a significant role in the settlement of the area surrounding the confluence of the Three Rivers. He was the most successful Nativ…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB2U_emerine-jane-holman-hamilton_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
She encouraged local efforts to form First Presbyterian Church, establish a public library, support the national Women's Suffrage Movement, and donated land for Fort Wayne's first African-American church.
The Hamilton Estate on Clinton Street a…