A–Z: F

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• The factory that almost fell: Electric Works Historic Preservation
• The fair on Swinney's grounds: the [1847-1874] bracket Fairs
• Fairfield Avenue — and the South Calhoun/Fairfield pair Main Roads & Corridors
• Fairfield Elementary School Schools & Colleges
• Fairfield Terrace and Belmont Neighborhoods
• The fairgrounds' other lives, and the line of the grounds Fairs
• Fairmount Place: flood land sold for a song City Controversies
• Fairs Section
• Faith in public life Churches & Religion
• The Famous Downtown Addresses — Courthouse Square, the Lincoln Bank Tower and the Embassy Theatre Famous Landmarks
• Famous Landmarks Section
• Famous People Section
• Famous scenes: the Fort Wayne that is actually on screen Film
• Famous Stories & the Record Section
• The famous trials of the scaffold era · the record owned by the Crime section Notable Murder Cases
• Fantasy of Lights: Franke Park by car, at Christmas Kids & Family Entertainment
• Fares and the funding fights Public Transit
• Farms & Crops Section
• Fashion Section
• Felix Schanz: the glass plates Photographers
• Fernando Tatis Jr.: one summer at Parkview Field Sports Players
• The festival city: Three Rivers and Johnny Appleseed Culture
• The Festival of Trees: the Embassy at Christmas Kids & Family Entertainment
• The festival tables: pioneer, German, Greek Food & Restaurants
• The festival that taught the city to gather: Franke Park, 1958 Culture
• A festival, not a fair: the Johnny Appleseed distinction Fairs
• Film Section
• Film & TV Producers Section
• Fire & Public Safety Section
• The fire chiefs — Hilbrecht's quarter-century to Lahey Public Servants
• Fire, Then the African Journey, 2007–2009 Zoo
• The firehouse firsts — Ridley, Wilson and Davie Public Servants
• The fires that marked the city Fire & Public Safety
• The first accounts: a country full of game Wildlife
• The first automobiles: three claims, and no crown Automobiles
• The first beds in town: the tavern licenses of 1824 Hotels
• The first big employers · the foundry and the shops Industrial Revolution
• The first cameras: itinerants on Columbia Street Photographers
• The first Catholic schools — St. Augustine's Institute and the Brothers' school Schools & Colleges
• First Christian Church (1871) Churches & Religion
• First Church of Christ, Scientist (1898) Churches & Religion
• The first distillery: Squire Rockhill's still Wineries & Distilleries
• The first field: inspected 1919, instruction from 1923 Airports
• The first fight: saving the Landing, 1963–1965 Historic Preservation
• First flights: the Driving Park, 1910 Airports
• The first game: the ground professional baseball forgot Historical Mysteries
• The First Ground — Old Fort Park and the Lawton Purchase, 1863–1866 Parks & City Planning
• The first locomotive arrived by boat, in pieces Strange but True
• First music: the churches and the first organ Music
• The first names · Black residents of the fort era Black History
• First National Bank of Fort Wayne Businesses
• First National Bank of Fort Wayne — the consolidations and the Depression-era end Businesses
• The first orchestras: Verweire and the Civic Symphony Music
• The first playground: the clubwomen's six acres Kids & Family Entertainment
• The first podcast wave: the city talks to itself Influencers & Digital Creators
• First Presbyterian Church Churches & Religion
• First Presbyterian Theater Arts
• The First Press — the Sentinel of 1833 Newspapers & Media
• The first sellers: a bicycle man changes trades The Dealerships
• The first storekeepers — Suttenfield, Ewing, Henderson, Bourie, Holcomb & Marquis, Coles Founders & CEOs
• The first taverns and the saloon era, in brief Bars & Nightclubs
• The first votes, and the first office · Catherine Dinklage Women's History
• The first wave and its reversal · 1917–1940 Black History
• Firsts Government
• The firsts in office · from the council chamber to the mayor's office Women's History
• The fisheries: sturgeon, walleye, and the mussel beds The Three Rivers
• Five Points Neighborhoods
• Five wildebeests on the streets Strange but True
• The five-hundred-dollar theatre Strange but True
• The floods, as one river record The Three Rivers
• Floods, closures and the money Bike Trails
• The Foellinger bequest: a newspaper fortune becomes the city's foundation Major Donations
• The Foellinger Foundation: the grantmaking machine Foundations & Nonprofits
• The Foellingers: A Newspaper Fortune, Given Back on Schedule Great Fortunes
• Food & Restaurants Section
• The foot trails: Lindenwood, Fox Island and Eagle Marsh Trails
• Forage, pasture, and the seed harvest Farms & Crops
• The forecast record: what Fort Wayne predicted for itself Population
• Forest Park Boulevard and the Forest Park Addition Neighborhoods
• Forest Park Boulevard and the Park and Boulevard System — the City Beautiful Plan Architecture
• Forest Park Elementary School Schools & Colleges
• The Forks of the Wabash, 1834 and 1838: the reserves are bought back Land Treaties & Titles
• The Forks of the Wabash, 1840: the remainder of the Big Reserve Land Treaties & Titles
• The form itself: what a county fair was for Fairs
• Formats: the comedy room, the retro club, the martini bar Bars & Nightclubs
• The Fort on Paper, 1795–1816 Historic Maps
• The fort ordered out of the floodway City Controversies
• The Fort Sites in Sequence — French, British and American Footprints Famous Landmarks
• The Fort Wayne Artists Guild and the crafts guilds Arts
• Fort Wayne Ballet Arts
• Fort Wayne Bible College — Taylor University Fort Wayne Schools & Colleges
• Fort Wayne branch, State Bank of Indiana Businesses
• Fort Wayne Branch, State Bank of Indiana Notable People
• Fort Wayne City Light & Power Businesses
• Fort Wayne Civic Theatre: the Kahn years and the Colglazier era Arts
• Fort Wayne Civic Theatre: the wandering company Arts
• The Fort Wayne Colored Giants · the city's Black ball club Black History
• The Fort Wayne Comedy Club: Michael Moses's room in New Haven Comedy
• Fort Wayne commandants — the 1803–1807 sequence and the 1813–1814 hole, filled Government
• Fort Wayne Community Schools — the founding Schools & Colleges
• The Fort Wayne company among the victims Lottery & Crypto
• Fort Wayne Country Club Private Clubs
• Fort Wayne Dance Collective Arts
• Fort Wayne entertains the state fair: October 1865 Fairs
• Fort Wayne Female College — Fort Wayne College — Taylor University Schools & Colleges
• The Fort Wayne Firefighters Museum Museums
• Fort Wayne Gas Light Company — dissolution and the line to NIPSCO Businesses
• Fort Wayne High School — Central High School Schools & Colleges
• Fort Wayne hosted the first night baseball game, in 1883. Famous Stories & the Record
• Fort Wayne in Indianapolis and Washington Government
• Fort Wayne invented the refrigerator, in 1913. Famous Stories & the Record
• Fort Wayne is the Summit City because the canal crested here. Famous Stories & the Record
• Fort Wayne Metals Notable People
• Fort Wayne Metals (Fort Wayne Metals, Inc. → Fort Wayne Metals Research Products Corp.) Businesses
• Fort Wayne Metals: from recording wire to medical wire Medical Advancements
• The Fort Wayne Museum of Art Museums
• Fort Wayne National Bank Businesses
• Fort Wayne on film: the shape of the record Film
• Fort Wayne on Screen — In the Company of Men (1997) Famous Landmarks
• Fort Wayne Paper Mills (the Fleming Paper Mills) Businesses
• The Fort Wayne Philharmonic Music
• The Fort Wayne Philharmonic's music directors Notable People
• The Fort Wayne Public Library opens Libraries
• Fort Wayne Speedway: the big track Racing
• The Fort Wayne State School Schools & Colleges
• Fort Wayne Times Notable People
• Fort Wayne Today Section
• Fort Wayne Transit — the private bus company, 1948–1968 Public Transit
• Fort Wayne Virtual Academy Schools & Colleges
• Fort Wayne was seventh on Hitler's bombing list. Famous Stories & the Record
• The Fort Wayne Woman's Club · the clubhouse on West Wayne Street Women's History
• The Fort Wayne Works: sixty years of trucks Automobiles
• Fort Wayne Youtheatre Arts
• Fort Wayne Youtheatre: forty students, one dollar, seventy-five actors Kids & Family Entertainment
• The Fort Wayne Zoological Society Charities
• Fort Wayne's Famous Coney Island: the stand that outlasted them all Food & Restaurants
• Fort Wayne, 1803: a treaty signed here, about land elsewhere Land Treaties & Titles
• Fort Wayne, 1809: three million acres down the Wabash Land Treaties & Titles
• The forts as posts · three stockades, one garrison, 1794–1819 Military
• The forty acres: county purchase and canal land inside the plat Land Treaties & Titles
• Foster Park Neighborhood Neighborhoods
• Foundations & Nonprofits Section
• Founders & CEOs Section
• The Founding: A Children's Zoo, Opened 3 July 1965 Zoo
• The fourteen-year fight for a tax-supported library Libraries
• The Fourth Station and the Public One — WFFT and WFWA Newspapers & Media
• Francis Comparet — the first store on Columbia Street Founders & CEOs
• Francis Comparet's trading house Businesses
• Francis Godfroy Notable People
• Francis La Fontaine Notable People
• Francis M. Price Elementary School Schools & Colleges
• Frank M. Freimann — the chief who came with Magnavox Founders & CEOs
• Frank M. Freimann: The Magnavox Fortune Great Fortunes
• Frank R. Barrows and "the finest gallery in the State" Photographers
• Frank R. Dulin Notable People
• Franke Park Elementary School Schools & Colleges
• Franke Park: the day camp in the biscuit man's woods Kids & Family Entertainment
• Franklin P. Randall Notable People
• The fraternal layer: Masons, Elks, Eagles, Moose Private Clubs
• Fred E. Zollars Notable People
• Fred Eckart — the first great packer Founders & CEOs
• Fred Eckart Packing House Businesses
• Fred H. Croninger Elementary School Schools & Colleges
• Fred J. Hayden Notable People
• Fred Zollner Notable People
• Fred Zollner: Pistons, Pistons, and the Pistons Great Fortunes
• The freight city that remains — and the trains that are only proposed Railroads
• The friendship layer: sister cities Exports
• From AWS to WindSwell: the disability foundation Foundations & Nonprofits
• From Farnsworth to L3Harris · the imager line Military
• From federation to United Way of Allen County Charities
• From patronage to merit — how the service was reformed Public Servants
• From the Air, 1912–2018 Historic Maps
• The fur trade's ledger: the first animal census is an invoice Wildlife
• The fusor: fusion demonstrated in a Fort Wayne laboratory Inventors & Inventions