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Each of the five court rooms has its own color scheme. Atop the building is a 255-foot (78 m)-high copper-clad domed rotunda, itself topped by a 14-foot (4.3 m) statue wind vane of Lady Liberty . The larger than life statue has feet that would wear a woman's shoe size of 28.
The Allen County Public Library (ACPL) is a public library system located in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, United States. Founded in 1895 as the Fort Wayne Public Library, the library served residents with 3,606 books out of a single room in City Hall. Today the library system includes a main library and 13 branch libraries in Fort Wayne ...
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Aboite Township is one of twenty townships in Allen County, Indiana, United States. As of the 2010 census , its population was 35,765, [ 5 ] up from 28,338 in 2000. [ 6 ]
The News-Sentinel traces its origins to 1833, when The Sentinel was established as a weekly paper. The Sentinel was owned for a year and half in 1878-79 by Fort Wayne native William Rockhill Nelson who went on to found and make his fortune with The Kansas City Star.
By the 1920s, Fort Wayne was an important city in the Midwest and consequently required federal services. Officials planned for a post office, federal office building, and federal courthouse. In 1928, Congress authorized funds for the acquisition of a site through the Public Buildings Act of 1926, which appropriated resources for federal ...
WGL was first licensed, with the sequentially issued call letters WHBJ, to the Lauer Auto Company at 2109 South Calhoun Street on March 3, 1925. [4] It was Fort Wayne's third broadcasting station, preceded by the United Radio Corporation's WFAS in 1922, [5] and the Strand Theater's WDBV in 1924, [6] although both of these stations had left the airwaves by the time WHBJ debuted.
Harry William Baals (/ b ɔː l z / BAWLZ; November 16, 1886 – May 9, 1954) [4] was an American politician who was the Republican mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana, from 1934 to 1947, and from 1951 until his death in 1954.