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Events include concerts, a community parade, amusement rides, a bed race, art and craft shows, children's and seniors mini-fests, an International Village, and a fireworks finale. [1] It is a celebration of the heritage of Fort Wayne, established during the French and Indian War at the confluence of three rivers: the Maumee, St. Marys, and St ...
This is a list of parks in Fort Wayne, Indiana. As of 2024, the Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation Department maintained 87 public parks totaling 2,805 acres (11 km 2) and four golf courses,. The department also cares for 50,000 street trees and 25,000 park trees. The largest park in the system is Franke Park which covers 329.24 acres (133 ha), while the smallest is Orff Park which covers.02 ...
Fort Wayne Park and Boulevard System Historic District is a national historic district located at Fort Wayne, Indiana.The district encompasses 34 contributing buildings, 61 contributing sites, 70 contributing structures, and 15 contributing objects in 11 public parks, four parkways, and ten boulevards associated with the parkway and boulevard system in Fort Wayne.
Fort Wayne Printing Company Building: August 24, 1988 : 114 W. Washington St. Fort Wayne: 27: Foster Park Neighborhood Historic District: Foster Park Neighborhood Historic District: September 25, 2013
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.
Johnny Appleseed Park, including what was formerly known as Archer Park, is a public park in Fort Wayne, Indiana. It is named after the popular-culture nickname of John Chapman, better known as "Johnny Appleseed", a famous American pioneer, who was buried on the site. Chapman's gravesite is accessible to public view through steel gates. The ...
Hence the name, the .20 acre park is home to the original well used by inhabitants of the first Fort Wayne established on October 22, 1794, dedicated to General Anthony Wayne. The fort was allegedly moved and rebuilt on this location in 1798, with completion in 1804. In 1815/1816, after the Siege of Fort Wayne, a third fort was built here on ...
An earlier (2010) designation of the Fort Wayne Park and Boulevard System Historic District includes rights of way on all of Anthony Boulevard to Vance Avenue. This was done though even though the original Kessler plan ended at present-day State Street, because the period of significance was held to continue from Kessler's original plan to 1955 ...