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1825
Founded: 1825, when Allen County built its first schoolhouse — a brick building, standing behind the site of the later county jail, and remembered in the Griswold-Phelps Handbook of 1913–14 as the first brick schoolhouse in Fort Wayne. It housed the county seminary, the state system's designated school for the county.
Course: Around it grew the subscription schools — kept by a teacher, paid by the term by the families who sent children. The record keeps a few of their names and houses: the McJunkin schoolhouse, built 1835/36 between Berry and Wayne streets, and the Petit School in Washington Township, standing by 1839.
Fate: The seminary era ended with Indiana's free-school laws of the early 1850s (see the FWCS founding entry below); the subscription schools faded into the township district schools.
Sources:
- Griswold-Phelps, Handbook of Fort Wayne (1913–14), via ACGSI.
- ACGSI, early schools of Allen County (McJunkin schoolhouse, 1835/36; Petit School, 1839).