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Georgetown, in northeast Fort Wayne, is documented only in part: no residential plat history, developer, annexation date, or name origin for the neighborhood was found in reputable sources, and none is invented here. Its commercial anchor keeps its own record: Georgetown Square's history page dates its first groundbreaking to 1968, when Tom Jehl built the first section — a Lincoln Bank, a Rogers Market, and 14 stores — in fast-growing northeast Fort Wayne; with his brothers Leo and Paul Jehl the center grew past 250,000 square feet by 1977, the Kroger that succeeded Rogers tripled the original store in 2000, and the Georgetown Branch library was rebuilt in 2002. Tom Jehl's son Steve Jehl has managed the square since 1981. In June 2026 the City launched the Georgetown Blackhawk 2040 Neighborhood Plan, covering 39 neighborhoods in the northeast, with completion expected in the fall of 2027. Georgetown is listed in the note at the end of this section among the neighborhoods documented only in part; the square's 1968 date is a retail date, not the neighborhood's founding.
Sources: Georgetown Square official history page; City of Fort Wayne release, June 5, 2026, and Georgetown Blackhawk 2040 steering committee minutes, June 2026.