Allen County, Indiana Genealogy

I Named Places in Allen County, Indiana

Ice Delivery, Inc.

1105 Cass Street, went out of buisness June 10, 1967. It was a consolidation of Consumers, Moran (started in 1860 using horse drawn wagons), and Centlivre ice companies. Home ice delivery was discussed February 24, 2017 and a photo of a July 7, 1967 The Journal Gazette newspaper article was posted and discussed September 24, 2017 on You are positively from Fort Wayne, if you remember... Archived group only visible to existing members on Facebook. See images of ice delivery items from the 1800s and early 1900s posted June 21, 2018 by The History Centeron Facebook.

I. Jones Recycling

3651 North Clinton 2008 Street View photo of an empty lot not the current Street View showing Carmax from Google maps

Was located at 3651 North Clinton Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana in an A. M. Strauss designed building originally for Wayne Cooperative Milk Producers. The site occupied approximately 4.5 acres and was situated in a predominantly commercial and residential area. South of the large Glenbrook shopping mall. Four buildings were located on the site. The facility, formerly known as Hanchar Industrial Waste Management and Continental Waste Systems, began operations in 1980 as a waste recovery and reclamation facility, handling waste oils and solvents along with other hazardous wastes. On September 9, 1986, a chemical fire broke out at the site. The local fire department and Hazardous Materials Response Team extinguished the blaze which narrowly missed igniting approximately 525 drums of hazardous materials in an adjoining room. The City then asked for and was granted a restraining order against IJ Recycling, closing the facility. The building was torn down in 1993.

I. Jones Recycling, Inc Settlement Released for Public Comment: March 2004 on IN.gov now on Internet Archive Wayback Machine has the same description as the U.S. Department of the Interior settlement shown below. Not found on the current Indiana Department of Environmental Management site?
I. Jones Recycling Inc. Site at the U.S. Department of the Interior.

Case Description

The I. Jones (IJ) site is located at 3651 North Clinton Street in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The site occupies approximately 4.5 acres and is situated in a predominantly commercial and residential area. The site is bordered on the southwest by Ernest Court, on the southeast by a parking lot adjacent to several small businesses, on the north by retail businesses including the large Glenbrook shopping mall, and on the west by a residence. Four buildings are located on the site.

The facility, formerly known as Hanchar Industrial Waste Management and Continental Waste Systems, began operations in 1980 as a waste recovery and reclamation facility, handling waste oils and solvents along with other hazardous wastes. Over the years, the owner/operators accepted waste from various industrial sources, and accumulated a substantial volume of partially treated and untreated hazardous substances. The facility ceased operations in 1984. While attempts were made to revive the facility, full operation was never achieved. Much of the waste was stored in tanks and drums, and an estimated 400,000 gallons of solvents and waste oils were awaiting treatment when the facility was sold. Some of the treatment methods formerly used on the site included oil/water separation, acid/base neutralization, heavy metal precipitation, and distillation.

In connection with the proposed sale of the site, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was asked by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to conduct a site assessment following an inventory of the closed facility by Pollution Control Systems in January 1985. The SBA was concerned about potential threats to public health and the environment posed by the large number of drums and tanks at the inoperable facility. The EPA and its Technical Assistance Team (TAT) conducted the inspection on February 25, 1985, and recommended that the current owner activate the sprinkler system, implement security measures, and conduct daily inspections of the facility to detect leaking drums and other unsafe conditions until a new owner took over.

On December 24, 1985, a ceiling collapsed at the facility and sheared off a valve on a 10,000 gallon tank containing highly chlorinated hazardous ink solvents. Five to six thousand gallons of material were spilled and approximately 1,500 gallons entered the storm sewer system. The EPA investigated the spill on January 3, 1986. IJ Recycling contracted Pollution Control Systems to clean up the spill. Clean up delays and financial problems resulted in some of the material entering the St. Joseph River.

The State of Indiana obtained an Agreed Entry of a Preliminary Injunction for IJ Recycling on March 22, 1986. This order prevented them from accepting any additional hazardous material until they lowered their existing inventory. On September 9, 1986, a chemical fire broke out at the site. The local fire department and Hazardous Materials Response Team extinguished the blaze which narrowly missed igniting approximately 525 drums of hazardous materials in an adjoining room. The City then asked for and was granted a restraining order against IJ Recycling, closing the facility.
They’re moving a lot of dirt at 3705 N. Clinton, and by early next year the property just south of Glenbrook should be home to the CarMax store Indiana. CarMax, based in Richmond, VA., was founded in 1999 and operates about 195 locations, including Indianapolis and Merrillville, and had sales of more than $17 billion in 2017. A Fortune 500 company, CarMax has an extensive on-line presence and plans to erect a 7,600-square-foot facility on the former I.J. Recycling site. Copied from KEVIN LEININGER: Site of major 1986 fire finally redeveloped; trail and Fire Department concerns exposed published May 11, 2019 in The News-Sentinel newspaper.
KEVIN LEININGER: Does redevelopment of contaminated sites mean Fort Wayne has learned history’s hard lessons? published December 28, 2017 in The News-Sentinel newspapersays it was the I.J. Recycling plant torn down in 1993 after a chemical reaction forced the evacuation of 3,000 people in a 20-block area September 9, 1986 near Glenbrook Mall leading to a $9 million government-led environmental clean-up. With the help of a $2.3 million city-backed bond, Hanchar Industrial Waste Management converted the former Wayne Dairy Co-op at 3651 N. Clinton St. into a recycling facility before selling to I.J. Recycling in 1985. But when I.J.’s owners declared bankruptcy following the 1986 incident, Allen County government took possession of the property for non-payment of taxes and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took charge of the cleanup, declaring the plant a “superfund” site and spending about $8 million to remove contaminated soil. The EPA later billed GE and other companies millions of dollars because they had sent waste to I.J., and the county spent an additional $800,000 on remediation before it dropped plans to locate a juvenile detention facility there. Finally, in 2005, the county sold the vacant 5.3-acre site to Dar Highlen, whose porch and patio store is across the street, for $600,000. Listed for sale at nearly $1.4 million, it has been on the market ever since...

Indian Reservation

Several were in the Fort Wayne area. Mentioned in a 1904 Fort Wayne News newspaper article posted May 1, 2017 on the original Great Memories and History of Fort Wayne, Indiana page on Facebook. See our Indian - Native Americans page.

Indiana Feed & Seed

Old time pet store, feed mill, and seed seller was downtown. Discussed October 24, 2017 on You are positively from Fort Wayne, if you remember... Archived group only visible to existing members on Facebook.

Indiana Hotel

See Hotel Indiana.

Indiana Institute of Technology

A photo of an etching hand signed by Blake Hughes of the Administration Building at Indiana Institute of Technology erected in 1852 was posted May 31, 2018 for "Throwback Thursday" by Hofer and Davis, Inc. Land Surveyors on Facebook.

Indiana Magazine of History

Over 300 copies of this quarterly publication are on Archive.org.

Indiana Michigan Power

Supplies electricity to Fort Wayne and northeast Indiana since they purchased the lease in 1990 from Fort Wayne's City Light. See our Indiana Michigan Power page.

Indiana Road Machine Company

Indiana Road Machinery Rock Crusher Walkaround - Very Similar to my ACME Rock Crusher's Design??? November 23, 2022 Squatch253 YouTube

Incorporated in 1896, owned by John Claus Peters, it was located on the corner of Osage and West Main. Various images discussed December 27, 2023 on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook. Page 82 in Fort Wayne, Indiana : a presentation of her resources, achievements and possibilities ... by Gardner, H. W., Publication date 1913 on Archive.org.

Indiana School for Feeble Minded Youth

See our Indiana School for Feeble Minded Youth page.

Indiana Theater

Discussed May 12, 2017 on You are positively from Fort Wayne, if you remember... Archived group only visible to existing members on Facebook.

International Business College

February 19, 1923 International Business College faculty and students photo posted March 16, 2023 on True Fort Wayne Indiana History on Facebook

International Harvester

See our International Harvester page.

Internet Archive

Includes the Wayback Machine that archives web sites no longer online. The company has been archiving Public Domain pre-1923 books from the Allen County Public Libraryand The Genealogy Center for many years then placed online at archive.org. Many of our links go to archived web pages on the Wayback Machines and local history books archived on Internet Archiveare found embeded in some of our pages.

Internet Archive from Deepspeed media on Vimeo.

Interurban Railways

See Interurban Railways on our Railroad page and Transfer Corner.

IPFW - Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne

After many years of offering courses at separate locations in Fort Wayne, Indiana University and Purdue University opened the combined campus of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne in 1964.

July 6, 2016 post by Hofer and Davis, Inc. Land Surveyors on Facebook:

For "Throwback Thursday" we dig out the ol' scrapbook and share this article for the groundbreaking at IPFW from the October 19, 1962 edition of the Fort Wayne Journal - Gazette. By the way.... Hofer and Davis provided the survey for the Foundation when they purchased the property.

November 23, 2016 post by Hofer and Davis, Inc. Land Surveyors on Facebook:

Hey Hey Hey!!! It's Wall of Fame Wednesday Baby! This is the artist's sketch of Kettler Hall from the FORT WAYNE JOURNAL -GAZETTE on January 1, 1963. BTW... Hofer and Davis did the boundary surveying for the Foundation when they purchased the property at State Road 37 and Coliseum.... and the Fort Wayne (IPFW) Mastodons had their biggest basketball victory last night beating Indiana University (Ranked #3 in the country) in overtime at The War Memorial Coliseum! Congrats to the "Dons"!

January 14, 2016 post by Purdue University Fort Wayne on Facebook:

This aerial view of the IPFW campus in 1970 shows the Education Building, later renamed Kettler Hall. Can you spot Allen County War Memorial Coliseum? #IPFWtbt #ThrowbackThursday

For more than a century, Indiana University has provided higher education opportunities for northeast Indiana in Fort Wayne (1917 to 1964)
Purdue University Fort Wayne History THIS IS OUR STORY
Indiana and Purdue Universities were officially split into two compuses July 1, 2018 into Indiana University Fort Wayne and Purdue Fort Wayne.
Process of changing IPFW to Purdue Fort Wayne ramping up gradually by Kevin Kilbane published March 29, 2018 in The News-Sentinel newspaper.
Indiana University Fort Wayne, Purdue University Fort Wayne, and Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne on Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.
See our Purdue University Fort Wayne section.

Irene Byron Hospital - Irene Byron Tuberculosis Sanitorium

See our Irene Byron Hosptial page.

Irishtown

See our Irishtown page.

Irving & Blanche Pinkus House

January 26, 2023 post by ARCH, Inc. on Facebook:

The Irving & Blanche Pinkus House on Kensington Boulevard is the subject of this week’s Throwback Thursday post. This c. 1925 Streamline Moderne house has smooth stucco walls with three bands of trim, corner slider windows and a recessed entry with original door. The Austrian-born Mr. Pinkus was a vice-president of the Fort Wayne Tailoring Company.

Isaly Creamery

A January 13, 2020 post with a photo by Foellinger Foundation on Facebook stated: This photo was taken on January 13, 1955, before the demolition of Isaly's Creamery. Soon after, construction began on the existing Fort Wayne Newspaper building, where Helene R. Foellinger was owner and publisher from 1936 to 1980. Berry Cafe and Deluxe Glass are now Henry's Restaurant. #downtownfortwayne #history