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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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB2L_pirogue-landing_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
Terminal point where French-Canadian boats, hollowed from 30-60 foot poplar logs, brought families and cargo up the Maumee River from Toledo and Detroit, and returned furs to Lake Erie in exchange for traders' supplies, from the late 1700's until …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMB2K_these-are-the-hamilton-women-of-fort-wayne_Fort-Wayne-IN.html
Edith (seated), scholar of Greek and Roman mythology, wrote the classic text, The Greek Way.Alice (standing), Edith's sister, influential industrial physician, advanced the reform of unsafe working conditions in our nation's factories.Agnes (with …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAMB_kosciusko-county-civil-war-memorial_Warsaw-IN.html
These guns were donated by the government to Posts 114 & 442 G.A.R. and by them presented to Kosciusko County, to be dedicated as a monument to the Union soldiers of 1861-65.
Dedicated Oct. 1897
These guns during the War of the Rebellion, co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAM9_milford-world-war-i-veterans_Milford-IN.html
In honor of the World War Veterans of this communityHarold Archer · Clarence L. Arnold · Earl Blaine Arnold · Leroy Harrison Arnold · Russell Baker · Joseph C. Baumgartner · Otto Beer · Charles Lloy…