History Center Notes & Queries

Last week the History Center dedicated the Old City Hall Building’s former City Council Chambers and Courtroom as the newly restored Shields...

One of the most intruiging images in the History Center's collection is a copy of a damaged ambrotype from 1859, depicting what is ...

It’s hard to imagine that air travel has only been around for about 108 years. Even harder to believe is that in 1900, Wilbur Wright told hi...

On the third Monday in January we celebrate Martin Luther King's birthday and honor his many contributions to building a better world. ...

There’s a great little book entitled “Who Put That There” that can serve as a guide for exploring Fort Wayne ’s history. The book was writt...

Travel back to December Sundays during the mid 1840s. In the recently completed Second Presbyterian Church on West Berry Street, the Rev. Ch...

Recently while reading John F. Meginness, The Lost Sister of Wyoming searching for places and dates about Frances Slocum, I ran into a r...