Fort Wayne, IN Summer Camps

About Fort Wayne, IN

Fort Wayne is a city in the US state of Indiana and the county seat of Allen County . The population was 253,691 at the 2010 Census making it the 74th largest city in the United States and the second largest in Indiana. The municipality is located in northeastern Indiana, approximately 18 miles west of the Ohio border and 50 miles south of the Michigan border. Fort Wayne is the principal city of the Fort Wayne Metropolitan Statistical Area , a metropolitan area that encompasses Allen, Wells , and Whitley counties, for an estimated population of 414,315. In addition to those three counties, the Fort Wayne–Huntington–Auburn CSA , a combined statistical area , includes Adams , DeKalb , Huntington , and Noble counties, for a population of 610,015. Under the direction of American Revolutionary War statesman General "Mad" Anthony Wayne , the United States Army built Fort Wayne last in a series of forts near the Miami Indian village of Kekionga in 1794. Named in Wayne's honor, Fort Wayne established itself at the confluence of the St. Joseph River , St. Marys River , and Maumee River as a trading post for European settlers. The village was platted in 1823 and experienced tremendous growth after completion of the Wabash and Erie Canal . By the 21st century, Fort Wayne's economy was based on manufacturing, education, insurance, health care, logistics, and defense and security. The city has been an All-America City Award recipient in 1982, 1998, and 2009.

History of Fort Wayne, IN

History Colonial See also: Forts of Fort Wayne, Indiana General "Mad" Anthony Wayne The Miami nation first established a settlement at the Maumee, St. Joseph, and St. Marys Rivers in the mid-17th century called Kekionga . The village was the traditional capital of the Miami nation and related Algonquian tribes. Historians believe that around 1676, French priests and missionaries visited the Miami on their way back from a mission at Lake Michigan . In 1680, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle sent a letter to the Governor-General of Canada stating he had also stopped there. In the 1680s, French traders established a post at the location because it was the crucial portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River . The Maumee River is approximately ten miles away from the Little River branch of the Wabash River , which flows, in turn, into the Ohio River . In 1696, Comte de Frontenac appointed Jean Baptiste Bissot, Sieur de Vincennes as commander of the French outpost in Miami country. The French built the first fort on the site, Fort Miamis , in 1697 as part of a group of forts built between Quebec, Canada , and St.

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