Outpost in the Wilderness: Fort Wayne, 1706-1828

There was a time when the writer of local history and the academic professional were two different people; indeed, one is almost tempted to say, they were two different species....

To know the history of any town is to know the significance of its geographical position. This is particularly true of the early history of Fort Wayne (Known to the Indians as K...

Wayne’s victorious “Legion” arrived at Miamitown on the evening of September 17, 1794. Lieutenant John Boyer, to whose journal we are indebted for the best account of the condit...

A dozen years had passed since the battle of Fallen Timbers and the defeat suffered by the Indians at that time was growing dim in their memories. English traders and military o...

At last the savages had struck their long deferred blow. The little garrison of eighty-five men at Fort Wayne received with alarm the first account of the massacre at Fort Dearb...

After peace came finally with the end of the struggles of 1812-15, the scene around the fort was one of rare beauty. The extensive clearing made by order of General Wayne in 179...

While the traders, large and small alike, were thus successfully evading any effective control over their operations, Fort Wayne was developing from a frontier army post and por...

The year 1825 found the village of Fort Wayne had developed to a town of nearly one hundred and fifty people—that is to say of persons considered more or less permanently settle...

A A. Ewing and Sons 90 Abbott, James 20 Agriculture 45 Allen, John 96 American Fur Co. 42, 82, 87, 92 Anahquah 31 Annuities 79, 84, 87, 92, 99, 102, 104 Annuity Money 89 Aquenoc...