It's #waybackwednesday! Take a look at this aerial view of the St. Mary's River and downtown Fort Wayne in 1924. This image comes from the Bert J. Griswold Collection in our Community Album.
Fall is starting to show its colors in Fort Wayne.
: John McGauley
HEADWATERS PARK MISSION STATEMENT by Geoff Paddock, Executive Director, Headwaters Park Alliance at City of Fort Wayne Parks & Recreation. The Headwaters Park Flood Control Project is an environmentally sound addition to the Fort Wayne area, bringing several important goals together. Among these goals are flood
mitigation, economic development, recreation, and outdoor education.Headwaters Park and Ice Arena is "located just north of the central city business district, Headwaters Park provides a quiet recreational spot as well as being the place where area residents come together for festivals, concerts, charitable and other special events."
At the ground breaking ceremony on Oct. 26, 1993, Headwaters Park was dedicated as the premier “Lasting Legacy” of the Fort Wayne Bicentennial Celebration and a monument to the citizens of the “City That Saved Itself.” copied from Headwaters Park is Stop #13 on the
Central Downtown Trail 19 stops on the
Heritage Trail by ARCH ( Architecture and Community Heritage).
On Thursday Dec. 20, Geoff Paddock, Executive Director of the Headwaters Park Alliance, awarded Anna Colbourne, a nurse from Parkview Hospital, as the 200,000th ice skater at the Headwaters Park Ice Rink. She became the 200,000th cumulative skater, since the rink opened back in Nov. 2003. Anna received a gift basket from area merchants and a season pass for the rest of the season. Each season, the popular ice rink hosts 20,000-25,000 skaters. From VisitFortWayne on Facebook.
A city belongs to the citizens saying by local designer local boy Eric Kuhne Eric Kuhne & Headwaters Park by Suzanne Slick, Collection Information Spercialist published June 20, 2019 by FWMoA, Fort Wayne Museum of Art.
In the summer of 1921, local candy company Heit-Miller-Lau put up a billboard on Calhoun Street that showed what it called “Just A Dream”: A riverfront park extending from Wells Street east to the confluence of the city's three rivers. On July 10 of that year, The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette (our name then) published a photo of that billboard along with a statement from the candy company. Copied from the History Journal features and stories of historical interest from the archives of The Journal Gazette
Dating back to 1903, the land has been the location of a foundry, a boiler shop, an auto salvage junkyard, a gas station, a machine shop, an auto upholstery business and a rag warehouse. Next door stood a natural gas production plant that operated for almost a century before closing in 1948. In recent years, the property at the northwest corner of Superior and Clinton streets has been a parking lot for patrons of the Club Soda restaurant and various Fort Wayne festivals. Copied from Stalled Lofts at Headwaters Park project faces cost and contaminants Rosa Salter Rodriguez, Feb 25, 2023 in The Journal Gazette newspaper.
: John McGauley
