Reproduced above is a plan of a civic center for Fort Wayne made by Robert B. Hanna, Consultant to the City Plan Commission, assisted by LeRoy Bradley, a local architect. As described by Mr. Hanna in an article in today's News-Sentinel, the principal existing feature of the plan is the new Filtration Plant; and its principal proposed features are these: A group of five public buildings at the end of East Berry Street, to be terminated at Lafayette Street; relocating the East end of Main Street, bringing it in line with the bridge at the confluence; bridge at Lafayette Street — Spy Run Avenue; re-arranging street car lines, running them straight with these bridges; fourfold arch memorial spanning street intersection that would displace Old Fort Park; municipal pier and boat house; park areas; large fountain; statutes of Washington, Wayne and Little Turtle; beautified river banks; and a system of riverside drives about the confluence that could be extended up along the St. Joseph and St. Mary's rivers to towns above and down along the Maumee to Toledo.
Glorious Gate In that famous debate between General Anthony Wayne and Chief Little Turtle at conference which terminated in the Greenville Treaty of Peace. Little Turtle's main contention was for a large tract of aand about this confluence and in his eloquent speech he referred to this location as That Glorous Gate through which all the worlds of our chiefs have had to pass from the north to the south and from the east to the west.
Anthony WayneWayne's victorious campaign was the most noteworthy ever carried on against them (the Indians of the Northwest) for it brought the first lasting peace on the border and put an end to the bloody turmoil of forty years fighting. It was one of the most striking and weighty feats in the winning ofthe West - Theodore Roosevelt.
Railroad Consolidation - If the N.Y.C & St. L. railroad tracks should be abandoned, and their trains be routed through Fort Wayne over the Pennsylvania and Wabash tracks. Then a Riverside Drive should displace this R.R. right-of-way and this plan be revised accordingly
Riverfront Fort Wayne is the name for development of the 3 rivers in downtown Fort Wayne started in 2015 with a conceptual plan drawn up and shared with the community. Read more on their History page and follow on Facebook.
There Are Rivers by Dale Enochs posted September 11, 2021 by Fort Wayne Museum of Art on YouTube 100 Years ago, the Fort Wayne Museum of Art organized into a professional organization after starting with art classes in the homes of the West Central neighborhood in 1888. That organization - the Fort Wayne Museum of Art and School - graduated dozens of artists that, today, are still part of our vibrant arts community.
Dale Enochs is one of those artists, a Fort Wayne native and graduate of the Fort Wayne Art School. He's gone on to create dozens of public sculptures around the state, but this is his first in Fort Wayne.
The sculpture is called "There Are Rivers", and it pays homage to the 3 rivers that converge in Fort Wayne and their role in the development of the land and community.
