Allen County, Indiana Genealogy

Germania Park is now Shoaff Park. See German Heritage.

Berghoff Brewery Bartenders Union members at Germania Park, Fort Wayne, IN, about 1907 from the Allen County Public Library Digital Collections at the Allen County Public Library.

Photo discussed February 29, 2024 on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook. Photo from Germainia Park now Shoaff park. Use to be a foot bridge there that took people across the river to board the Trolley going to Robison park.

Germania Park — Large, wooded private park on bank of St. Joseph river about 6 mi. n. of city. Reached by drive and by Robison Park car line. Suspension bridge connects trolley station with park. Robison park car at Transfer Corner. Page 95 in The Griswold-Phelps handbook and guide to Fort Wayne, Indiana, for 1913-1914 on Archive.org.

Germania Park, in the late 1880s and early 1900s was located on the east bank of the St. Joe River in what was a housing development in 1990 from the end of the paragraph above. Copied quote: a newly annual "German Day" celebration held in Germania Park which was owned by the Berghoff Brewing Co. This celebration ceased with U.S. entry into the war [World War I], and with it the park which was sold to the Elks. from page 33 of Chapter 16 in the book Becoming American on the former Hoosier German Heritage website archived on the Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

Speakeasy: Prohibition in Fort Wayne. 2011. During this documentary, you’ll learn how this area came to grips with its prohibition past. This presentation looks at the history as well as some of the local mythology he that arose from this time. Archival images coupled with first-person interviews by those who know this area’s Prohibition backstory are featured prominently. PBS Fort Wayne. Somewhere in this documentary it mentions that Germania Park became Shoaff Park.

Wir Trinken und Tanzen in Germania Park: Fort Wayne German-American Society and the National German American Alliance during World War I 1 Jan. 1994, 34 pages by Mark A Rogers, 977.202 F77ROG at the The Genealogy Center at the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne, Indiana. (Author) for History Studies Seminar at Indiana University - Purdue University in Spring 1994 Old Fort News, vol. 59, nos. 1-2 (1997): 1-20. Good background on Fort Wayne's German Community (page 130 at The History Center.

"Rogers, Mark A. “Wir Trinken und Tanzen im Germania Park: Fort Wayne
German American Society and the National German American
Alliance during World War I.” Old Fort News, vol. 60, no. 1 (1997): 1- 30." page 113 of 294 page Historical Sources of Fort Wayne, Indiana by John D. Beatty on Archive.org.

"Rogers, Mark A. “Wir Trinken und Tanzen im Germania Park: Fort Wayne
German American Society and the National German American
Alliance during World War I.” Old Fort News, vol. 59, nos. 1-2 (1997):
1-20. Good background on Fort Wayne’s German community." page 130 of 294 page Historical Sources of Fort Wayne, Indiana by John D. Beatty on Archive.org.

"Rogers, Mark A. Wir Trinken und Tanzen in Germania Park: Fort Wayne German-American Society and the National German-American Alliance during World War I. Fort Wayne: Mark A. Rogers, 1994./977.202 F77rog/ Important history of the German community in Fort Wayne before and after World War I, including the history of Germania Park. Includes some photographs." page 204 of 294 page Historical Sources of Fort Wayne, Indiana by John D. Beatty on Archive.org.

From page 188 in Notes to Pages 68-69 and page 193 in the Bibliography of Hard News, Heartfelt Opinions A History of the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette By Scott M. Bushnell · 2007.

Maennerchor at Germania Park, 1913 from the Allen County Public Library Digital Collections at the Allen County Public Library.

July 28, 1912 Fort Wayne News (Fort Wayne, Indiana)

Posted by Indiana News 1 on Sunday, March 23, 2014

March 24, 2014 post by the original Great Memories and History of Fort Wayne, Indiana page on Facebook:

July 28, 1912
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