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The line extended north to Big Rapids, Michigan, by October 1, 1870, and a train first traveled between Fort Wayne and Big Rapids on that date. [1] In June 1871, the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad Company took control of the road and property of the Cincinnati, Richmond and Fort Wayne Railroad Company, extending the line south to Cincinnati.
The city of Grand Rapids was incorporated April 2, 1850. [ 9] It was officially established on May 2, 1850, when the village of Grand Rapids voted to accept the proposed city charter. The population at the time was 2,686. By 1857, the city of Grand Rapids' area totaled 10.5 square miles (27 km 2 ).
The company was consolidated with the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad on October 1, 1884. The main line of the Grand Rapids and Indiana ran between Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Mackinaw City, a total distance of roughly 366 miles (589 km). Under the Pennsylvania Railroad and Penn Central the line was known as the Grand Rapids branch and GR&I branch.
The Grand Rapids and Fort Wayne Railroad Company. This company was a corporation of Indiana. It constructed no railroad and owned no completed mileage. No accounting records of this company are obtainable. The articles of association authorized it to issue capital stock in the amount of $400,000.
The Norton Mound group was the center of Hopewellian culture in that area, from ca. 400 B.C. to A.D. 400. These mounds were probably constructed in the first century AD. [3] The name "Norton Mounds" comes from Captain A.N. Norton, who owned this property in the 1800s. [4] The mounds were first excavated in 1874 by W. L. Coffinbury.
Area code (s) 260, 574, 765. As of March 2020, the Fort Wayne–Huntington–Auburn Combined Statistical Area (CSA), or Fort Wayne Metropolitan Area, or Northeast Indiana is a federally designated metropolitan area consisting of eight counties in northeast Indiana ( Adams, Allen, DeKalb, Huntington, Noble, Steuben, Wells, and Whitley counties ...
Fort Wayne is a city in and the county seat of Allen County, Indiana, United States. [ 10] Located in northeastern Indiana, the city is 18 miles (29 km) west of the Ohio border [ 11] and 50 miles (80 km) south of the Michigan border. [ 12] The city's population was 263,886 as of the 2020 census, making it the second-most populous city in ...
LaOtto was established in the 1830s as settlers headed north out of Fort Wayne, Indiana along the Mongoquinong Trail, which would later become Lima Plank Road. From 1856 to 1861, LaOtto was called Simon's Corners, a name taken from the local U.S. Post Office (and so named by cabinet maker and first Postmaster John Miller).