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At that time, Fort Wayne was the largest motor supply depot in the entire world, the command center controlling the flow of materiel from the automobile factories to the citywide network of storage and staging facilities, which included the Michigan State Fairgrounds, and the Port of Detroit terminal. Every single tank, truck, jeep, tire, or ...
The first public event held at the Ford Center was an Evansville IceMen hockey game on November 5, 2011, when the IceMen defeated the Fort Wayne Komets 3–1. The first concert was held four days later on November 9, 2011, by Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band.
His barbershop in Madison was a center of Underground Railroad activity along the eastern route in the 1830s and 1840sbut due to his active involvement in the underground network, it became unsafe for DeBaptiste to remain in Madison. He moved to Detroit, Michigan, around 1846.
Evansville is a city in and the county seat of Vanderburgh County, Indiana, United States. [5] With a population of 118,414 at the 2020 census, it is Indiana's third-most populous city after Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, the most populous city in Southern Indiana, and the 249th-most populous city in the United States.
By 1980, the festival had grown to 206 events across Fort Wayne. The following year, the festival introduced a children's parade and attempted to set a record for the World's Longest Hot Dog, at 527 feet (160.6 m) long. In 1980 the festival featured the World's Biggest Pretzel at 10 feet (3.0 m) in diameter. [2]
War Memorial Coliseum was known foremost as the home of the NBA's Fort Wayne Pistons for five seasons (1952–57) as well as the 1953 NBA All-Star Game and 1955 and 1956 NBA Finals. After the Pistons moved to Detroit in 1957, the facility continued to host at least one of their games every season from the 1958–59 to 1966–67 campaigns.
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]
Liberty Arena, Home of the Screaming Eagles is a multi-purpose arena in Evansville, Indiana.It is the home arena of the Southern Indiana Screaming Eagles at the University of Southern Indiana.Seating 4,800 people for basketball games, It opened in 2019 (as the Screaming Eagles Arena) after being rebuilt from the previous much smaller Physical Activities Center or PAC Arena to better prepare ...