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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTLO_the-first-police-station_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
1863 marked the beginning of the first organized Police Force in the city. The council named a captain and three patrolmen to serve from twilight to daybreak. On this site was located the first city Police Station. It contained three iron cages on…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTLN_mother-george_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
The first Fort Wayne home of Mrs. Eliza E. George was near this spot. At the age of 54 she helped make Civil War nursing history. Mother George, as she was known to thousands of Union soldiers, served with front line troops in Mississippi, Tenness…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHUH_the-first-french-fort-the-first-playground-in-fort-wayne_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
[Left side of marker]: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 (d. 1736…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHUD_william-wells_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
A tract of 320 acres of land extending west of the St. Joseph River (the modern Bloomingdale and Spy Run neighborhoods) was set aside by an act of Congress in 1808 for the Indian agent William Wells in recognition of his many services to the U.S. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME89_johnny-appleseed_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
Johnny Appleseed legendary planter of orchards across Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, was a real person named John Chapman. He was a friend to all God's creatures and a missionary for the Swedenborgian religion, a Christian denomination.
He was al…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME6Q_meshekinnoquah_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
Chief Little Turtle was one of the most feared and respected leaders during the frontier wars of the 1780s and 1790s when Fort Wayne was born. Known to his people as Meshekinnoquah, Little Turtle is thought to have been born in 1752 in a village a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME6O_kekionga_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
This area of the Three Rivers was a site of settlement of Native Americans for as much as 10,000 years. The collection of villages known as Kekionga, located in the present-day Lakeside neighborhood, was a center of the Miami nation in historic ti…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME6K_the-battle-of-kekionga_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
The Battle of Kekionga in October 1790 was the fist battle fought by the United States Army after the War for Independence. The campaign had been ordered by President Washington against the Miami settlement of Kekionga, the center of Indian resist…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME38_the-battle-of-harmars-ford_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
To the Memory ofMajor John WyllysAnd His Brave Soldiers WhoWere Killed Near this SpotIn The Battle of Harmar's FordOct. 22, 1790With the Indians UnderChief Little Turtle
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME02_the-last-two-american-forts-the-siege-of-1812_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
The Last Two American Forts
In 1798, Col. Thomas Hunt began construction on this site of the second American fort at the Three Rivers. this fort, which was completed in 1800, replaced the first, hastily built one erected nearby to the south by …