Fort Wayne Churches, Schools, Hospitals and Civic Institutions

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Fort Wayne Churches, Schools, Hospitals and Civic Institutions

Churches and religion, schools, hospitals, libraries, museums, charities and lodges.

Aerial view of Concordia College, Fort Wayne. Tichnor Brothers postcard. Public domain · source file

Fort Wayne Churches and Religion: The City of ChurchesReligion · the City of Churches, congregation by congregationFort Wayne calls itself the City of Churches, and for once the civic nickname understates the record. This section is that record: every congregation and faith institution the sources support, in the order they arrived…59 entry pages

Fort Wayne Schools and Colleges: From Early Childhood to UniversitySchools · the whole ladder, oldest firstEvery school in the record, from the mission school in the decommissioned fort in 1820 to the pharmacy campus on Diebold Road — founded, founders, what it was, its course, and its fate, with sources on each entry. The…154 entry pages

Fort Wayne Hospitals: St. Joseph, Lutheran, Parkview and the City's Medical Care12 entry pages

Medical Advancements From Fort Wayne: Nitinol Wire, Hospital Firsts and TransplantsMedical Advancements · what Fort Wayne medicine made, proved, and did firstThis section is the advancement record of Fort Wayne medicine — not the hospitals, which are profiled as institutions in the Hospitals record, and not the epidemics, which are the Epidemics record's, but the things Fort…14 entry pages § 49Epidemics and Public Health in Fort Wayne: Cholera, Smallpox and TyphoidEpidemics & Public Health · the systematic recordThis section is the epidemic and public-health record of Fort Wayne, from the fevers of the settlement era to the department that guards the county's health today. The one great pandemic of the twentieth century is told…

Fort Wayne Mental Health Institutions: The State School and the County AsylumMental Health Institutions · The state school, the county asylum, and the long road back to the communityFor most of Fort Wayne's history, a resident who fell mentally ill or was born with a developmental disability had three possible destinations, and none of them was a psychiatric hospital in this city — Fort Wayne never…10 entry pages § 51Fort Wayne Fire Department and Public Safety HistoryFire & Public Safety · the institutionsBefore Fort Wayne had a fire department it had a petition. This section tells the story of the service that petition started: the bucket-and-ladder town of the canal years, the volunteer companies that made firefighting…7 entry pages

Fort Wayne Libraries: The Public Library and Its ForerunnersWhat it was: Fort Wayne's first library of which any trace survives belonged to the Working Men's Institute movement — the network of mechanics' and workers' libraries spread across Indiana in the mid-19th century. A…27 entry pages

Fort Wayne Museums: The History Center, the Museum of Art and MoreThis record ends at the Allen County line. Northeast Indiana's other great museum town is Auburn, in DeKalb County, whose Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum, Early Ford V-8 Foundation Museum, and National Auto &…14 entry pages

Fort Wayne Charities and Civic Institutions: From the Poor Farm to the YMCAFormation: Girl Scouting in Fort Wayne ran for most of the 20th century through the Limberlost Council — named for Gene Stratton-Porter's Limberlost country east of the city. On 26 August 2006 the Girl Scouts of the USA…28 entry pages § 65Fort Wayne Foundations and Nonprofits: Who Funds the City's Causes15 entry pages

Major Donations That Built Fort Wayne's InstitutionsMajor Donations: the gifts that built Fort Wayne's institutionsFort Wayne's institutions run on other people's money, given on purpose. The city's largest library endowment, its pharmacy college, its scholars programs, its downtown park, its research center and a good share of its…17 entry pages

Fort Wayne Masonic Lodges, Secret Societies and Fraternal OrdersSecret Societies & Fraternal Orders · The Lodge CityFor a hundred years, Fort Wayne ran on lodge nights. The first secret society in the city was organized in 1823, inside the palisades of the old fort, a year before Allen County itself existed; by 1909 the Fort Wayne…17 entry pages

Fort Wayne Private Clubs: Country Clubs and City ClubsPrivate Clubs: The Country Clubs and City ClubsWealth in Fort Wayne has always had addresses where it gathered by invitation. Some were downtown — a commercial club in an office building, a lecture club at Friday lunch, a dining club twenty-five floors above Berry…11 entry pages

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