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- Racing Section
- Racing on the Water Racing
- Railroad work — the shops' other history Railroads
- Railroads Section
- Rails — and a canal — into trails · the mechanism Bike Trails
- The Rain Forest Decade: Dome, Orangutan Valley, Tiger Forest Zoo
- Ralph Baer Notable People
- The Randall Hotel: a tannery that became "the best $2 hotel in Indiana" Hotels
- The ranked table: Fort Wayne's documented major gifts Major Donations
- Rea Magnet Wire Company Businesses
- Rea Magnet Wire Company Notable People
- The reckoning: marker, regret, and the names restored Mental Health Institutions
- The record searched: Black inventors and the honest negative Inventors & Inventions
- The record since, in full Swingers Clubs
- The records that burned: Turner Chapel's archive Historical Mysteries
- The rectifier's city: B. Trentman and the wholesale liquor houses Wineries & Distilleries
- The Red Men: borrowed names, real benefits Lodges & Fraternal Orders
- Redeemer Lutheran Church (1892) Churches & Religion
- The refrigerator threads: Wolf's Domelre, Mellowes's unit, and the Monitor Top Inventors & Inventions
- The Remainder of the Historic Roll Churches & Religion
- Repeal and the neighborhood tavern Bars & Nightclubs
- The Rescue Mission Charities
- The research city now: the Mirro Center Inventors & Inventions
- The reserved sections: school lands and swamp lands Land Treaties & Titles
- The residency's research: the Fort Wayne Medical Education Program Medical Advancements
- The rest of the documented roll Lottery & Crypto
- The rest of the wartime footprint · what was, and was not, here Military
- The returns I: otter and beaver, the fur animals back Wildlife
- The returns II: eagle, turkey, and the downtown falcons Wildlife
- The reversal · deindustrialization Industrial Revolution
- The Reynolds Historical Genealogy Collection Libraries
- A Rhodes claim that does not hold National Honors
- A Rhodes Scholarship: Raju Raval National Honors
- The Rialto Theatre: the South Calhoun neighborhood palace Theaters
- Richard E. Hoagland Notable People
- The Richardville grants: 28,320 acres, treaty by treaty Land Treaties & Titles
- Richardville was the richest man in Indiana · worth $23 million today · born under a miraculous apple tree. Famous Stories & the Record
- The ring — I-69 and I-469, and what the interstates did to the corridors Main Roads & Corridors
- The Rivalry as a Civic Institution Newspapers & Media
- The river as amenity: festivals, trails, and the facing of the water The Three Rivers
- The Rivergreenway in full · three pathways from the zero marker Bike Trails
- The rivers' fish: sturgeon water to carp water, and partway back Wildlife
- Roach & Albanus: the carriage house that built an automobile Automobiles
- Roads, Mail, and Highways, 1910–1981 Historic Maps
- Robert B. Thieme Jr. Notable People
- Robert C. Harris Elementary School Schools & Colleges
- Robert E. Kelly Notable People
- Robert F. Borkenstein: the Breathalyzer, and the legend of the color camera Inventors & Inventions
- Robert Meyers Notable People
- Robert S. Taylor Notable People
- Robinson's Report — the City's First Plan, 1909–1910 Parks & City Planning
- Rod Woodson Notable People
- Rod Woodson: from Snider High School to Canton Sports Players
- The Roller Dome: a thousand kids a day Kids & Family Entertainment
- Ronald Reagan Notable People
- Ross Lockridge Jr. — a Fort Wayne childhood, a Bloomington life Authors & Books
- Ross Lockridge Sr. — the father, in one paragraph Authors & Books
- The rosters of record — and a blind poet Authors & Books
- Royal Baking Powder: the Hoaglands and Thomas Biddle Inventors & Inventions
- Rubber replaces rail — the conversion, 1939–1960 Public Transit
- Rudisill Mill (the Johns Mill, the St. Joe Mill) Businesses
- The Rumble in Fort Wayne Racing
- Ruoff Mortgage — first the Dave Ruoff Mortgage Company Businesses