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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 ...
Historic Fort Wayne, seen here in 2014, is a recreation of the 1815 garrison. 41°5′7.91″N85°8′10.78″W / 41.0855306°N 85.1363278°WFort Wayne was a series of three successive military log stockades existing between 1794 and 1819 on the confluence between the St. Mary's and St. Joseph Rivers in northeastern Indiana, in what is ...
The Kensington Boulevard Historic District is a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in Fort Wayne, Indiana, added in 2019. [2] The district contains more than 170 homes built between 1917 and 1955, with one home dating to approximately 1870.
June 10, 1994. St. Vincent Villa Historic District is a national historic district located at Fort Wayne, Indiana. The district encompasses nine contributing buildings and one contributing site associated with a Catholic orphanage. The buildings were constructed between 1932 and 1950–1951, and include notable examples of Mission Revival ...
The Union met the Confederates near here in 1862 for the Battle of Old Fort Wayne. [3] The old fort was located in present-day Adair County, near U.S. Hwy 59 just north of Watts, Oklahoma. An Oklahoma State Historical site marker can be seen alongside the highway. The marker was placed in the 1970s at the request of area residents. Up until ...
George W. Wood. Formation. 1840. Website. Office of the Mayor. This is a list of mayors of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The mayor is the chief executive of the city, charged with overseeing the operation of all local government departments. Mayoral terms are four years, with no limit on the number of terms an individual may be elected to.
The Battle of Tippecanoe (/ ˌ t ɪ p ə k ə ˈ n uː / TIP-ə-kə-NOO) was fought on November 7, 1811, in Battle Ground, Indiana, between American forces led by then Governor William Henry Harrison of the Indiana Territory and tribal forces associated with Shawnee leader Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa (commonly known as "The Prophet"), leaders of a confederacy of various tribes who ...
April 20, 2006. The Illsley Place–West Rudisill Historic District is a national historic district in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The district encompasses 63 buildings and 1 structure in a predominantly residential section of Fort Wayne. The area was developed from about 1887 to 1955 and includes notable examples of the Colonial Revival, Tudor ...