Fort Wayne Origins: The Land, the Rivers and the First Peoples

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Fort Wayne Origins: The Land, the Rivers and the First Peoples

The ground, the rivers, the first peoples and the city's whole story.

The Old Fort, Fort Wayne, May 2014. Momoneymoproblemz · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source file

Fort Wayne Before the City: Glaciers, Rivers and the First PeoplesBefore Fort Wayne · the place before the cityEvery other section of this record begins with people. This one begins with the ground, because the ground is why everything else happened here. Before there was a city, a fort, or a town of any nation, there was a…

How Fort Wayne's Land Changed Hands: Treaties, Cessions and Grants19 entry pages

The Three Rivers of Fort Wayne: St. Joseph, St. Marys and MaumeeThe Rivers · St. Joseph, St. Marys, MaumeeEvery other section of this record treats the rivers as the stage. This one treats them as the subject. Fort Wayne exists because two rivers, arriving from different states and different soils, meet in the middle of the…19 entry pages

The Miami People and the Native Nations of Fort WayneTribes · the Native peoples of this groundThis section is the deep record of the peoples who held this ground before the city and who hold a claim on its history still: the Myaamia — the Miami people — whose capital stood where Fort Wayne stands, and the other…

The Story of Fort Wayne: From the 1690s to TodayThe Story of Fort Wayne section · 1690s to todayThree rivers, a portage of seven to nine miles, and everything that followed from it.

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Source: Fort Wayne Origins: The Land, the Rivers and the First Peoples, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/fort-wayne/topics/origins/

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