The Fur Traders and the Military at Fort Wayne

The French built Fort St. Philippe (Fort Miamis) west of this area by 1722, to command the land portage here between the Maumee and Wabash Rivers. It was important to the French to protect the area in their political competition ...

Hopper Family Burying Ground

Located on the

boundary between

two Hopper farms, the

cemetery was shared

by both families and

their relatives for

almost one hundred

years. The earliest

known burial was

in 1804.

Marker is on Spotswood Road 0.1 miles west of Delmar Avenue, on the left when traveling west.

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First Americans

The confluence area of the Three Rivers was known to the native people since as early as the end of the last Ice Age, more than 10,000 years ago. As the glaciers melted and receded, they paused here creating a ...

Site of the Willstown Mission

1823-1839

Also resting place of

Supt Ard Hoyt

1770-1828

Missionary to the

Cherokee Indians

Here and at Brainerd

1818-1828

Marker is on 38th Street Northeast south of Godfrey Avenue, on the right when traveling south.

Courtesy hmdb.org

James Monroe’s First Farm

Site of the University of Virginia

In 1788 James Monroe purchased an 800-acre farm here to be close to his friend Thomas Jefferson and to establish a law office. In 1799 the Monroes moved to their new Highland plantation adjacent to ...

Site of Former Greenbush Cemetery Burials

Nineteenth century cemeteries were sometimes relocated as a community expanded. In 1845, land was purchased for a cemetery in the Greenbush neighborhood of Madison where St. Marys Hospital is located today. The cemetery became overcrowded with Madison's German and Irish ...

Battle of Decatur

During the Battle of Decatur on July 22nd 1864 there was hot fighting in and around the old courthouse which stood on this square.

Wheeler's Cavalry made a gallant charge here and captured a battery of federal artillery with officers and ...

Basil Neal - Soldier of '76

?1/2 mi.—«

"Happy Valley", homesite and burial place of Basil Neal, Revolutionary soldier, lies one-half mile off this highway in the direction the arrow points.

Basil Neal or O`Neal, was born in Maryland in 1758. When he was 17 years old his ...

Shadyside Iron Furnace

Built on lowlands here in 1792. Birth of the iron industry in the Pittsburgh region. It made stove and grate castings. Closed about a year later due to lack of ore and wood.

Marker is at the intersection of Bayard Street ...

Flood Retention Walls

The concrete retention walls at the north end of the plaza will help downtown Fort Wayne withstand future flooding when the rivers rise. They were constructed where sandbaggers and volunteers worked during the flood of 1982 to build a dike ...