Statewood Park

Statewood Park

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When George Washington was President he declared war on the Miamis and Fort Wayne was the focal point of several bloody battles. The Indians were able to carry the day until Washington sent General “Mad” Anthony Wayne into the territory and Wayne did what General St. Clair and others had not. He defeated the Indians. Captain John Hamtramck had a new fort erected and called it Fort Wayne in honor of the victorious general. It was located approximately at the corner of what is now Berry and Clay Streets.

Fort Wayne suffered through the Siege of 1812 (during the war of 1812) and felt the wrath of the great American Indian leader Tecumseh. General Harrison was one of the men who helped end the War of 1812.
Fort Wayne was considered a barbaric, wild and dangerous frontier town. Murder, mayhem and lawlessness were the norm. When Samuel Hanna arrived in 1819 he set out to tame the town.
In the beginning. Isaac McCoy started the first school with 25 students --10 spoke English, 6 spoke French, 5 used their Indian dialect and 1 was a Negro. This school was a microcosm of Fort Wayne of the time...a place that some soldiers and travelers considered Babel-like in its language makeup.
The Wabash and Erie canal construction opened up the city to the world. Many waterway saloons and churches sprang up vied for mens souls.
Even though Stephen A. Douglas carried the county over Abraham Lincoln and southern sentiment was quite prevalent, Allen County sent 6,000 men to fight in the war between the states. Fort Wayne prospered and grew while civilization took hold, and the present Allen County Public Library had its beginning in the 1890s.
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