Five Points

Five Points is the northwest junction where Goshen Avenue, Sherman Boulevard, and Lillian Avenue meet — for a century a gateway into Fort Wayne on the historic Lincoln Highway, which followed Goshen Avenue until 1928. (It is not the East State Village, whatever the pairing in older outlines of this project suggested; East State Village is three miles northeast, and it has its own entry in this section.) No source found documents where the name Five Points came from, and no published neighborhood history of the area was found; what is documented is the junction's own life. The Earl Knight Filling Station, built about 1926 at the Five Points site later occupied by North Side Bait and Tackle, stood until the roundabout era. The City's $5.3 million Goshen Avenue Improvements Project rebuilt the junction — Phase I was completed in October 2020, the project was named the 2021 APWA-Indiana Public Works Project of the Year for transportation, and Susan Zoccola's sculpture "Five Point Spin," three 12-foot branches carrying 15-spoke wheels in tribute to the Lincoln Highway motorists, was installed in late September 2022, with lighting and landscaping finished in June 2023. The Lincoln Park Five Points Neighborhood Association, defunct for a period, began reactivation in the fall of 2023 under the City's Neighborhood Activation program. Five Points is also listed in the note at the end of this section, as a place documented as a junction rather than as a neighborhood with a written history.

Sources: City of Fort Wayne, Goshen Avenue Improvements release, May 20, 2022, and Five Point Spin page; City of Fort Wayne, Lincoln Park Five Points Neighborhood Activation page; ACGSI N-named-places file (Earl Knight Filling Station).