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THE NORTHWEST · GOSHEN ROAD (U.S. 33) / GOSHEN AVENUE
The Goshen road is the northwest line: the road from Fort Wayne toward Goshen and Elkhart, old State Road 2's country and, in the numbered era, U.S. 33. Its city stretch, Goshen Avenue, is remembered for one junction. Where Goshen Avenue met Sherman Boulevard and Lillian Avenue, five roads came together at a signalized five-way stop known to everyone in Fort Wayne as Five Points. The junction stood on the 1913–1915 Lincoln Highway route: the highway came in from the east through downtown, crossed the St. Marys on the Harrison Street (Lincoln Highway) Bridge, passed St. Vincent Villa, and left town through Five Points to the northwest — until the Lincoln Highway was realigned in 1928, taking Goshen Avenue off the route. The junction kept its roadside layer for a century: the Earl Knight Filling Station, built about 1926, stood at Five Points until it was demolished for the junction's rebuilding.
The rebuilding is the corridor's modern record. The City's Goshen Avenue Improvements Project converted the five-way signalized intersection — which the City's award citation describes as having no pedestrian access, no lighting, poor drainage, long delays and a history of accidents — into a roundabout in Phase 1, completed October 2020, at a cost of $5.3 million; the project took the 2021 APWA-Indiana Public Works Project of the Year award in Transportation, and in September 2022 the City installed Susan Zoccola's 24-foot "5 Point Spin" sculpture of early-automobile spoke wheels in the roundabout's center, expressly as a tribute to the Lincoln Highway and the motorists who passed through the junction for a hundred years. Goshen Road beyond the roundabout carries U.S. 33 northwest and, at Coliseum Boulevard, ties the corridor into the north bypass — the Lincoln Highway Association's road guides still route heritage traffic down Goshen Avenue through the roundabout, on the 1913 line.
Sources: Indiana Lincoln Highway Association, Indiana's Lincoln Highway Byway turn-by-turn guides (1913 and 1928 routes); City of Fort Wayne, "5 Point Spin" commemoration (Oct. 18, 2022) and Goshen Avenue Improvements Project of the Year award (May 20, 2022); ACGSI, Lincoln Highway in Allen County and N Named Places (Earl Knight Filling Station, c. 1926).