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K & K Insurance
Nord Krauskopf was a roofing contractor and local race car driver competing at South Anthony Speedway and Fort Wayne Speedway. There was no insurance for drivers, so he would collect $1 from racers for a benevolent fund in case someone got hurt. After a few crashes, the fund was quickly depleted. Krauskopf had an idea to start selling insurance to race tracks, and in 1952 he contracted through Lloyd's of London and started touring race tracks. In May 2017 The Indiana Racing Memorial Association erected a plaque honoring 65 years in business. Copied from his story in Racing history organization honors K&K's track impact, Company founder was pioneer in insurance and team ownership by Blake Sebring published May 10, 2017 in
The News-Sentinel newspaperand Local firm's legacy ensured 1st company to insure racers, tracks gets historical marker by Frank Gray published May 11, 2017 in The Journal Gazette newspaper.
Opened in late 2008 in the former First Church of God at 3039 Piqua Avenue. The collection included an original draft of the Bill of Rights, a 1503 copy of the Magna Carta and a Thanksgiving proclamation signed by George Washington. Exhibits rotate regularly.
Architectural students should take note of the Karpeles Museum, originally the First Church of Christian Scientists at 2410 Fairfield, built in 1927 and the Emmanuel Missionary Baptist Church circa 1956, next door to the museum, that was the former B’nai Jacob Synagogue. First Baptist Church, across the street, was built in 1949 and the Fairfield Avenue Church of the Nazarene, now Wings of Deliverance, was constructed in 1964. From Magnificent churches and stately homes stand out in newly designated Beechwood Historic District Jamie Duffy, December 7, 2021 CBS WANE-TV NewsChannel 15.
The Karpeles Museum in Fort Wayne occupies two buildings. Fairfield Hall at 2410 Fairfield Avenue is a former Church of Christ Scientist building and houses a rotating collection of historical documents, old and ancient ship models, and stone hieroglyphic inscriptions from the time of Moses.Piqua Hall is housed in a domed church at 3039 Piqua Avenue built in 1917 as the First Church of God. It houses a rotating collection of historical maps.
The Fort Wayne location provides an educational outreach program in the form of mini-museum displays that are set up in local schools and maintained by museum staff.
“Our primary goal is to share the vast collection of historical documents in Dr. Karpeles' collection and to share the need for documentation retention and historical clarity, no matter how painful,” says Al Brothers III, the Fort Wayne museum’s director. Copied from Item #4 in 5 museums you might not know about in northeast Indiana by Lauren Caggiano on November 7, 2018 in Input Fort Wayne.
No longer online Faded but grand Fort Wayne church about to get new life as museum Karpeles Manuscript Museum plans move to former Fairfield church in May by Kevin Leininger published April 12, 2013 in
The News-Sentinel newspaper.
The Miami Indian Village was at the confluence of the three rivers, now known as Fort Wayne, Indiana. The Battle of Kekionga (from HMDB Historical Marker database) in October 1790 was the fist battle fought by the United States Army after the War for Independence. The campaign had been ordered by President Washington against the Miami settlement of Kekionga, the center of Indian resistance to U.S. migration across the Ohio River. On October 17, the U.S. commander, General Josiah Harmar, reached Kekionga with 1,453 regular and militia soldiers and found that the Miami had burned and abandoned their town.
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Page 474, A tract of ground north of Camp Allen, in Nebraska, between the canal and West Main street, was converted into a baseball park for the lively contests which occurred in 1870 and succeeding years. The citizens raised a fund to erect a grandstand, the ornamental central section of which was christened "The Grand Duchess." A monument marking the location of the first professional baseball league game between the Fort Wayne Kekiongas and the Cleveland Forest Citys on May 4, 1871 in Camp Allen Park in Fort Wayne was erected in May 2017. Fort Wayne won 2-0.
Baseball’s first professional league game, 150 years ago posted Jul 6, 2022 This story originally aired: May. 4, 2021 FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WPTA) - by Daniel Beals on YouTube. May 4 is a special day in baseball, especially here in 21Country. A monument marks a historic site at Camp Allen Park, alongside the St. Marys River.
“You could argue that Fort Wayne was part of the first professional sports league in America, which is kind of cool,” sports historian Blake Sebring told us.
Sebring has literally written the book on sports history in Fort Wayne. “The Kekiongas were a club team in Fort Wayne,” he said, “they had a little bit of a reputation in the midwest as being a good team.” In 1871, they were invited to join the National Association of Professional Baseball Players. A city in Ohio was slated to make history that day. But Mother Nature had other plans.
John McGauley photograph MLK Bridge Opening Night posted June 4, 2012 on flickr
Hundreds of pedestrians walk across the Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge in downtown Fort Wayne, Indiana, on its opening night in 2012.
Dedicated June 4, 2012, the bridge " includes 25 plaques with quotes from Dr. King, sculptural etchings, decorative paving, a soaring 50-foot high arch, seating midway across the bridge, landscaping that connects to the trail and headwaters park and state-of-the-art lighting, which displays millions of shades of color. Monuments on each end of the bridge feature a four by six cast relief of Dr. King, accepting the Nobel Peace Prize. Bordering the bridge walkways are decorative stainless steel railings, with and words illustrating Dr. King's beliefs laser cut into the railing." From CityofFortWayne.org CITY LANDMARK RECEIVES STATE HONOR MLK Bridge Recognized by Landscape Architects where "The Indiana Chapter of ASLA recently recognized bridge construction partners -- architectural firm DLZ Indiana, the Indiana Department of Transportation and the City of Fort Wayne -- by presenting the Honor Award for Constructed Works." March 11, 2013 Another award for the MLK Bridge - Engineering Excellence Award from Amer. Council of Eng. “Frozen in Time,” a time-lapse photo of the Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge in Fort Wayne, will be on display for the next year in the U.S. Capitol Building, according to a statement issued by the school. From Carroll student to be honored for MLK artwork published May 29, 2013 The Journal Gazette newspaper. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Bridge photos on cityofgortwayne.org.
Kings - Kings A & I
King Trunk and Leather Works, Inc. was founded in 1919 by Morris King. In later years the company was run by brothers Harry H. and Manuel (Manny) K. and then James R. King, Manuel's son. In 1926 King Trunk and Leather Works purchased the Allerding & Ittenbach Co. that had been founded in 1902 and was known as the A & I store. King's later combined the two stores names becoming Kings A & I Leather and Camera Shop. Kings first store was located in the 1100 block of S. Calhoun. They moved to 916 S. Calhoun in 1940. In 1952 they hired local architect A. M. Strauss to remodel 814 S. Calhoun to house both stores. King's A & I remained at this location until closing in 1984. They opened a store at Glenbrook Mall in 1970 and remained there, occupying several locations in the mall, until closing in 1994.. Copied from the Kings A & I Collection with photos courtesy of James R. King on the Allen County Community Album at the ACPL.
Randy Harter, Fort Wayne historian and authorworked with James King, the third generation owner of Kings A & I, to scan and catalog 58 images of the family’s downtown fine leather and luggage store(s), the last location of which was on Calhoun (now the site of the Dash-In), along with his stores in Glenbrook Mall. August 5, 2019 Randy posted an image showing the northeast corner of Calhoun and Wayne Streets on You are positively from Fort Wayne, if you remember... Archived group only visible to existing members on Facebook. You can see the Lincoln Tower rising above and behind the building.
Kintz Diner No. 1 - believed to be on Maumee Rd (Lincoln Highway) east side of Fort Wayne, IN - from an original photograph used to make a Dexter Silvercraft postcard:
Grandson posted newpaper ad for Sunshine Diner No. 2 in comments for opening Sunday, April 5, 1936.
Several newspaper articles were written in 1974 and formerly shared online to Facebook pages no longer available.
Concrete and stucco art decco house begun in 1938, then after 14 years of labor was abandoned in 1951 when Jacob Knee died of a heart attack. Also known as the Cement House, Concrete House, The Rock, or White Mansion was behind the former Mr. Wiggs south of Hanna Street on U.S. 27, near John Street and the old Jewish Cemetery on Decatur Road, is no longer there. Was replaced by duplexes in 1995 from a
The News-Sentinel newspaperarticle shared June 17, 2013 in a post on the original Great Memories and History of Fort Wayne, Indiana page on Facebook.
Nancy Mullins Swain says: This house was built by my father's cousins, Jake and Wayne Knee. One of the builders lived in the house with his elderly mother until 1961. Legend says that a man built the house for his paralyzed wife and spent no expense to make sure her wheelchair could move freely throughout the house. When the woman died, the man walked away from the house before it could be finished. Over the years the house was destroyed by the elements and the ruins are supposedly haunted by the ghost of his wife. From the June 11, 2008 A Guide to the Ghosts and Legends of Fort Wayne, Indiana as of Janaury 9, 2013. See also Name That Ft. Wayne Landmark with photo and lots of comments in a discussion May 10, 2008 on Fort Wayne Left blog still there in 2022. January 9, 2013 discussion .
The home at the corner of Webster and Rudisill is one of the oldest homes on the entire south end of town. Built in the 1880s, it was initially the home of Paul and Mary Koehler, who were married in 1881. Paul operated a brickyard on the property, perhaps one of a handful in Fort Wayne at the time. Paul created a “brickyard neighborhood” bound by Webster, Rudisill, French, and Hoagland, where residences and the brickyard itself existed. This is why if you drive down French Street, you see multiple small but old brick homes. Today’s story is about an Indiana Supreme Court case involving this brickyard.
In 1892, one of Koehler’s employees was delivering a load of bricks with a team of horses. Shortly after, Mose Read, the agent for the Fort Wayne Humane Society, ordered the employee to drive to the store of George Loesch on Barr Street. George was the secretary of the Fort Wayne Humane Society. The two men allegedly started to inspect the horses while also telling the employee that both he (and Koehler as the owner) were treating the horses inhumanely.
At the time, there was a broad legal authority within the State of Indiana for society leaders to prevent animal cruelty. Specifically, the law stated that any society leader “may kill or cause to be killed any animal found neglected or abandoned and which, in the opinion of three reputable citizens, is injured or diseased past recovery, or, by age, has become useless.” The agent and the secretary sought the opinions of three reputable citizens, who all agreed the horses were useless. Upon deciding on this, the agent and secretary shot the horses in front of the employee. Koehler, only finding out later, filed a lawsuit.
The lawsuit went all the way up to the Indiana Supreme Court. At issue in the case was whether the law was even valid, considering it does not require notice or due process when it results in the destruction of one’s property. Ultimately, the Supreme Court held the law invalid and sided with Koehler because this state-initiated property deprivation was without due process.
Koehlinger Security Technology, Inc.
Loss prevention products & services since 1913. 421 East Washington Blvd. Facebook page. Koehlinger Lock and Key Service on one side, and Koehlinger Toy Store on the other side, shared the same building from Local Business a Community Player for 100 Years Eric Olsen video on
21Country at 21AliveNews.com.
George and Michael Kozma founded Kozma Bros. in Fort Wayne in 1916 at 1333 Lafayette St. A year later, they moved their store to 1402 Hanna St., pictured here in 1934. It remained there until the brothers sold it to Louis Christ in 1938. Christ kept the name and the store was open until 1945.
Date:c. 1954; Description:White high top leather shoe bolted to ferrous frame; toe brake of white plastic; sole edge and heel painted orange; marked "PRO-TECK-TOE (On toe brake)".
Used by donor in early 1950s at her fathers (Lester Kreigh) rink, Kree's Roller Skating. The rink operated from 1936 to June 1973.
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This past weekend, we lost this lovely woman we knew as Mom, Grandma, and Great-Grandma, Delores Kuehnert. She has been a leading light to our family and this farm for the past 70 years. We feel so blessed and are so thankful for her life so well lived.
Its been a rough week to say the least. This weekend we also said our goodbyes to the man we all known as Dad, Grandpa and Great-Grandpa, Melvin Kuehnert.
On the other hand, he had an amazing week! He drove his buggy down to the farm for his last stroll, checked on the cows, inspected how we were coming with spring farm machinery maintenance and viewed the construction progress of Kuehnert Milk House. He had the biggest smile on his face, so very proud of his family, their hard work and the legacy he was leaving behind! He was surrounded by his family and friends as he said his farewells to his bride of 73 years.
Melvin was the glue that held us all together. We are all going to miss him so very much. However, his work here on earth was complete, and it was his time to meet his Lord and Savior. We are thankful and blessed for his life so well lived.
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