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- C. Harold Wills Notable People
- Calhoun Street — the south side's spine Main Roads & Corridors
- Camp Allen — the Ground of the First Professional Baseball Game Famous Landmarks
- Camp Potawotami: the Y's lake in the woods Kids & Family Entertainment
- The canal grant, 1827: the state becomes a landowner Land Treaties & Titles
- The canal opens a market, 1835–1843 Exports
- The canal's river engineering: feeder dam, feeder canal, aqueduct The Three Rivers
- The canal-era houses: American, Rockhill, Hedekin Hotels
- Cancer Services of Northeast Indiana Charities
- Capehart → Farnsworth Television & Radio Notable People
- Capehart Automatic Phonograph Corporation → Farnsworth Television & Radio Corporation (Capehart-Farnsworth) Businesses
- Capehart, Farnsworth, and the Pontiac Street plant — ITT's roots here Technology
- Care of the smallest: Parkview's neonatal intensive care, 1979 Medical Advancements
- The cargo decades: Burlington, Kitty Hawk, and the second airport inside the airport Airports
- The caring institutions in brief · relief, nursing and the visiting nurse Women's History
- Carl Bennett — the man in whose front room the NBA was set in motion Notable People
- Carl Sommer, the enduring German Photographers
- The Carnegie building Libraries
- Carole Lombard Notable People
- Carole Lombard: 704 Rockhill Street to the top of Hollywood Famous People
- Carole Lombard: the screwball queen, born on Rockhill Street Comedy
- Caroline Britt, Fort Wayne Mom: the local guide as a creator business Influencers & Digital Creators
- Carroll High School Schools & Colleges
- Carroll High School Freshman Center Schools & Colleges
- Carroll Middle School Schools & Colleges
- Casa: two friends, a St. Louis recipe book, and four dining rooms Food & Restaurants
- Casey Cooper, COOP3RDRUMM3R: the most subscribed drummer comes to Sweetwater Influencers & Digital Creators
- The catheter era matures: TAVR and the accredited heart-failure program Medical Advancements
- Catholic Cemetery — 3500 Lake Avenue Famous Landmarks
- Catholic Cemetery — Monument Lore Without a Ghost Ghost Stories
- Catholic charity's first institutions: Sacred Heart Home, St. Vincent de Paul, St. Vincent Villa Charities
- The Catholic Grade Schools of Fort Wayne and Allen County Schools & Colleges
- Catholic missions at the posts Churches & Religion
- Cedar Canyon Elementary School Schools & Colleges
- Cedarville Elementary School Schools & Colleges
- The Centennial Week — Fort Wayne Celebrates Indiana's Hundredth, June 1916 Parks & City Planning
- Central Catholic High School Schools & Colleges
- The Champagne Club Swingers Clubs
- The Chapman gifts: eight million dollars for the scholars of Purdue Fort Wayne Major Donations
- Charities Section
- Charles A. Dunkelberg Notable People
- Charles A. Zollinger Notable People
- Charles C. Stevens and the last blockhouse Photographers
- Charles Eldridge Barnett, M.D. Notable People
- Charles H. Worden Notable People
- Charles R. Weatherhogg (1872–1937) — architect Notable People
- Charles R. Wermuth Notable People
- Charles S. Bash Notable People
- Charles T. Pidgeon Notable People
- Charles W. Miner and the new courthouse Photographers
- Charlie Savage — the Fort Wayne reporter who won a Pulitzer on presidential power Notable People
- Charlie Savage: the Pulitzer winner from the Journal Gazette's newsroom Famous People
- Charter No. 11 — the First National Bank Banks
- The chief executives Fort Wayne produced — the roster Founders & CEOs
- The Chief Richardville House — 5705 Bluffton Road Famous Landmarks
- The Chief Richardville House — the History Center's satellite Museums
- The chiefs of police — from the night watch to Caudill Public Servants
- The chiefs who came here — a grouped record Founders & CEOs
- Children, hours and the law Industrial Revolution
- Chloe Chambers: raised here, racing the world Racing
- Chosen in a tavern — the first officers Public Servants
- Christian Haffner Notable People
- Chuck Surack Notable People
- Chuck Surack and Sweetwater Great Fortunes
- Church history in print: Bertram, Blanchard, and the congregations' own books Sources
- Churches & Religion Section
- Churches as Buildings — the Cathedral, St. Paul's and Plymouth Architecture
- Cinema Center and the Spectator: the art-house thread Theaters
- Cinema Center: film as art Arts
- Citilink — the modern system Public Transit
- City Controversies Section
- The city hospital line: City Hospital, Hope, and Methodist, 1878–1953 Hospitals
- The City Mills (C. Tresselt and Sons) Businesses
- "City of Churches": the moniker and the count Churches & Religion
- The City of Fort Wayne's own archive.org corpus Sources
- A city that built instruments: the Fort Wayne Organ Company and Packard pianos Music
- The city that voted itself an hour east Strange but True
- The city's own answer: the Grand Wayne Center and its Hilton, 1985 Hotels
- The city's own: All-America City, four times over National Honors
- The city's trade office and the Exporters of the Year Exports
- City, county, metro: three different Fort Waynes Population
- The City-County Building / Rousseau Centre (1971) — Brutalism on Main Street Architecture
- The civic and cultural gifts: a rescue, a founding collection, and the honest thinness of the rest Major Donations
- The Civic Awakening — Lectures, Clubs and a River Front Commission, 1909–1913 Parks & City Planning
- The claim that fails: Hoosiers was not filmed here Film
- The claims, tested Food & Restaurants
- Classic Products Corp. Notable People
- Classic Products Corp. (Fort Wayne Bowling Supply → The Classic Company → Classic Products Corp.) Businesses
- The clerk's desk — keepers of the paper Public Servants
- Clinton Street — the federal highway downtown Main Roads & Corridors
- Closing: the famous wineries that are not Fort Wayne's Wineries & Distilleries
- The club at the Hallmark Inn Swingers Clubs
- Clyde Burt: the potter Fort Wayne trained Artists
- The Clyde Theatre: the Quimby memorial and the region's premier movie house Theaters
- The Clyde: one room, two music lives Music
- The coal indictments: a mayor, a police chief, and fifty-two charges that never reached a verdict City Controversies
- Cold Cases Section
- The Cold Cases That Were Solved Cold Cases
- Cold War electronics abroad: Magnavox and the licensed radio Exports
- Cole Precision Castings Businesses
- Cole Precision Castings Notable People
- Coles / Wines Mill Businesses
- Coles / Wines Mill Notable People
- Colin Chin: the hometown captain Sports Players
- Coliseum Boulevard — the bypass that became a main street Main Roads & Corridors
- The Coliseum corridor's full-service house: Holiday Inn at IPFW, 2008 Hotels
- The Coliseum indoors: where USAC began Racing
- The color line, and the Green Book's Fort Wayne Hotels
- Columbia Street: the first Ford dealer and a hole in the wall The Dealerships
- Columbia Street: the first garages and agencies Automobiles
- Comedy Section
- Communities Section
- The Community Foundation of Greater Fort Wayne: the pooled vehicle Foundations & Nonprofits
- The community foundation's first five thousand, and the Clarke twenty million Major Donations
- The Community Foundation: Where the Smaller Fortunes Pooled Great Fortunes
- Community Harvest Food Bank of Northeast Indiana Charities
- Comparet & Kiser's canal distillery — and a quarrel between the histories Wineries & Distilleries
- Components, not implants: the Warsaw distinction, stated plainly Medical Advancements
- The comptroller's desk — and the woman who became mayor from it Public Servants
- Concordia — Eero Saarinen's Village (1953–1958) Architecture
- Concordia College — the gymnasium Schools & Colleges
- Concordia Lutheran Church (1899) Churches & Religion
- Concordia Lutheran High School — the Luther Institute line Schools & Colleges
- Concordia Lutheran School Schools & Colleges
- Concordia Senior College Schools & Colleges
- Concordia Theological Seminary Schools & Colleges
- Concordia Theological Seminary: the Fort Wayne founding Churches & Religion
- The Confluence of the Three Rivers Famous Landmarks
- Congregation Achduth Vesholom Churches & Religion
- Coolah, the last Tasmanian devil outside Australia Strange but True
- Cork 'N Cleaver: the chain that shrank to three, and Fort Wayne kept one Food & Restaurants
- Corn, oats, and the drained land; then corn and soy Farms & Crops
- Corporate giving: the Lincoln foundation and the Vera Bradley foundation Foundations & Nonprofits
- The corridor · East Central, Hanna Street, and the Green Book Black History
- The count · Black Fort Wayne in the censuses Black History
- The count today: what the checklists say lives here Wildlife
- Counting the sector, I: the Indiana University studies (1995–2009) Foundations & Nonprofits
- Counting the sector, II: the 2018 human-services impact study Foundations & Nonprofits
- The county around the city: townships and neighbors Government
- The county asylum and its insane ward Mental Health Institutions
- The county fair: from the Agricultural Society to Carroll Road Farms & Crops
- The county in numbers: the census frame Farms & Crops
- The county poor farm: Allen County's first institution of relief Charities
- The county ring — East Allen, Northwest Allen, Southwest Allen Schools & Colleges
- The County Seminary and the first schoolhouse Schools & Colleges
- The County Takes Shape on Paper, 1846–1880 Historic Maps
- The courthouse: decay, rescue, and the price of keeping it City Controversies
- Covington Elementary School Schools & Colleges
- Covington Plaza: the west side's grocery-anchored pillar Malls & Shopping
- The Creative Awards: the scene names itself Influencers & Digital Creators
- The credit unions — the working city's banks Banks
- Crime History Section
- The cross-references: carried at full size elsewhere in this record Famous People
- A Crowded Field — Gazette, Journal, and Daily News Newspapers & Media
- The Crowds: Attendance and Honors, Dated Zoo
- Crypto: the frame, at true size Lottery & Crypto
- Culture Section
- The culture of the centers Malls & Shopping
- The culture, part one: the Maumee Valley Antique Steam & Gas Association Tractors
- The culture, part three: the Fort Wayne Farm Show Tractors
- The culture, part two: pulls at the county fair, and Arcola's weekend Tractors
- The current city's registers: Congress, GFW, the employers themselves Sources
- The curve, part one: 1925–1954 — the machine takes the county Tractors
- The curve, part two: 1978–2022 — fewer farms, more tractor to the farm Tractors