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- W. Robert Klaehn Notable People
- W. Sherman Cutshall Notable People
- W.G. & G.W. Ewing Company Notable People
- W.G. & G.W. Ewing Company (the House of Ewing) Businesses
- Walker "Bud" Mahurin Notable People
- Walking sticks made from the fort Strange but True
- Walter G. Zahrt Notable People
- WANE-TV Notable People
- WANE-TV (channel 15) — founded as WINT, Waterloo Businesses
- War Heroes Section
- War work · the factory gate, 1942–1963 Black History
- War work · the women's half of two home fronts Women's History
- The war years: the showrooms empty The Dealerships
- Ward Pattern & Engineering → Ward Corporation Notable People
- Ward Pattern & Engineering Company → Ward Aluminum Casting, Inc. → Ward Corporation (Ward Corp.) Businesses
- Wars, Unrest & Disasters Section
- Washington Blake, the Cute Studio, and a name the record does not finish Photographers
- Washington Center Elementary School Schools & Colleges
- Washington Elementary School Schools & Colleges
- Washington Hall Notable People
- Washington Hall — Alexander Ewing's tavern (also rendered Washington House) Businesses
- The watch, the policemen, and the force of 1863 Fire & Public Safety
- Water and light — the utilities of safety Fire & Public Safety
- Wayne Candies — the national-ownership years and the end of Fort Wayne production Businesses
- Wayne Candies (Heit-Miller-Lau Company) Businesses
- Wayne Hardware Company Businesses
- Wayne High School Schools & Colleges
- The Wayne Hotel, 118 West Columbia Hotels
- Wayne Knit: the stocking Fort Wayne sold to America Fashion
- Wayne Knitting Mills Businesses
- Wayne Knitting Mills Notable People
- Wayne Lodge No. 25: the first secret society in Fort Wayne Lodges & Fraternal Orders
- Wayne New Tech Schools & Colleges
- Wayne Pump Company Notable People
- Wayne Pump Company (Wayne Oil Tank Company → Dresser-Wayne → Wayne Fueling Systems) Businesses
- Wayne Warehouse Businesses
- Wayne Warehouse Notable People
- "The Wayne" and "the Huffman": two marques that do not verify Automobiles
- Waynedale Neighborhoods
- Waynedale Elementary School Schools & Colleges
- Waynedale's corridor — Bluffton Road and Old Trail Road Main Roads & Corridors
- WBCL: faith on the FM dial Churches & Religion
- The weather eyes: instruments built here on every American weather satellite Inventors & Inventions
- The weather instruments — Fort Wayne's eyes in orbit Technology
- The Wedding Pact 2: The Baby Pact (2021): a Hollywood production, on purpose Film
- Weisser Park Elementary School Schools & Colleges
- Wells Street and Spy Run Avenue — the road to Chicago Main Roads & Corridors
- The Wells Years: Zoo Mobile, the Veldt, and 550 Animals Zoo
- Wes Malott — the PBA Hall of Famer who bowls out of Fort Wayne Notable People
- West Central Neighborhoods
- West Central (the West End Historic District) — the City's First Neighborhood Architecture
- What is headquartered here now Banks
- What replaced it · the diversified city Industrial Revolution
- What the hotels were for: drummers, banquets, and the meeting trade Hotels
- What the record can and cannot support UFO Sightings
- Wheat: the cash crop of the canal era, and its fall Farms & Crops
- The wheel before the network · ordinaries, safeties and the Fort Wayne Bicycle Club Bike Trails
- Where Indiana law drew the line Swingers Clubs
- Where the money goes Lottery & Crypto
- Where the pictures live Photographers
- The Whig Answer — the Times and John W. Dawson Newspapers & Media
- Whispering Meadows Elementary School Schools & Colleges
- Whitney Young Early Childhood Center Schools & Colleges
- Who bought the townsite: Barr and McCorkle Land Treaties & Titles
- Who was inside: membership and its boundaries Private Clubs
- The widening circle: Orthodox, Burmese Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh Churches & Religion
- Wildlife Section
- Wildwood Park Neighborhoods
- Wilhelm Sihler Notable People
- Willard Shambaugh Elementary School Schools & Colleges
- William Breuer Notable People
- William C. Geake Notable People
- William Forsyth (1854–1935) — painter Notable People
- William Henry Harrison Notable People
- William J. Hosey Notable People
- William J. Vesey Notable People
- William P. Breen Notable People
- William P. Cooper Notable People
- The William Robinson Mill (Howe's Mill) Businesses
- William Salzmann, photographer to the German city Photographers
- William Stewart Notable People
- William Wells Notable People
- Williams-Woodland Park Neighborhoods
- Willow Creek Middle School Schools & Colleges
- Wilt's 3,000th point, in a borrowed home game Strange but True
- Winamac Notable People
- Wineries & Distilleries Section
- Winfield Moses Notable People
- Wire for the world: the magnet-wire cluster and the die maker Exports
- WKJG-TV → WISE-TV Notable People
- WKJG-TV → WISE-TV (channel 33) Businesses
- Wolf & Dessauer Businesses
- Wolf & Dessauer: the Crystal Room and the lunchtime fashion show Fashion
- The Woman in White haunted the Main Street bridge in 1883. Famous Stories & the Record
- The Woman in White of the Main Street Bridge Ghost Stories
- The Woman's Club League · the federation that built the library Women's History
- Women and Black Founders Founders & CEOs
- Women in the factories · a third of the hands Industrial Revolution
- The women of Kekionga · the corn economy and the chief's line Women's History
- The women of the trade Photographers
- Women's History Section
- Women's industrial work · six thousand factory girls Women's History
- Woodhurst Neighborhoods
- Woodlan Elementary School Schools & Colleges
- Woodlan Junior/Senior High School Schools & Colleges
- Woodside Middle School Schools & Colleges
- The workforce · from artisans to wage earners Industrial Revolution
- Working City Maps, 1874–1965 Historic Maps
- The working river: what floated, and what never did The Three Rivers
- Workwear: gloves for the shops, socks for the army Fashion
- The world's largest guitar pedalboard, assembled at the Clyde Strange but True
- The world's largest high-heel race Strange but True
- WOWO — the Voice of WOWOland Newspapers & Media
- WPTA Notable People
- WPTA (channel 21) — "21 Alive" Businesses
- WWI Home Front Section