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Spinners and Weavers of Indiana Fiber and Textiles. Fiber Producers and Fiber Artists. Indiana State Fair Demonstrations. John Mullarkey workshop at the Trading Post. Sheep to Shawl 2012. Meet the Fort Wayne Flax and Fleecers. The Fort Wayne Flax and Fleecers Guild. Meets the second Tuesday of each month at the historic Swinney Homestead, 1424 W. Jefferson Blvd., Fort Wayne, IN. Learn more about the history of this beautiful site on the Settlers website. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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History Center Notes & Queries: The Purple Heart
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History Center Notes and Queries. Our Stories from Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana. About The History Center. People Behind the Posts. Hands-On History for Kids. Wednesday, January 7, 2015. A brief examination of the history of the Purple Heart shows that its origins and history are somewhat open to debate, so we have chosen www.thepurpleheart.com. As our source for the bulk of the information in this blog post. The forerunner to the Purple Heart was the Badge of Military Merit. The Continental Cong...
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History Center Notes & Queries: March 2014
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History Center Notes and Queries. Our Stories from Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana. About The History Center. People Behind the Posts. Hands-On History for Kids. Thursday, March 27, 2014. The First Jewish Community. Jews had been in the area of Fort Wayne since the days of the French and Indian War in the 1760s. Perhaps most notable, this was the first Jewish congregation to be organized in the state of Indiana. Nirdlinger was active in community affairs, serving as city councilman, a founder of the...
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History Center Notes & Queries: December 2014
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History Center Notes and Queries. Our Stories from Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana. About The History Center. People Behind the Posts. Hands-On History for Kids. Tuesday, December 9, 2014. 8220;Alle alle Ochsen frei” and the Kingston Trio. Retired high-school German teacher, rural LaGrange County, IN. I replayed it, this time paying more attention to the lyrics. Sure enough, they were singing something like “Alle Alle Oxen free,” a mixture of German and English which translates as &#...I checked on ...
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History Center Notes & Queries: May 2014
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History Center Notes and Queries. Our Stories from Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana. About The History Center. People Behind the Posts. Hands-On History for Kids. Thursday, May 29, 2014. Across the street from Freimann Square, south of the grand statue of Mad Anthony Wayne astride his great war horse, and east of the Allen County Courthouse Green, stands the Journal-Gazette Building at Main and Clinton streets. An Italianate style, it was originally constructed in 1871 for industrialist John Bass.
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History Center Notes & Queries: September 2014
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History Center Notes and Queries. Our Stories from Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana. About The History Center. People Behind the Posts. Hands-On History for Kids. Thursday, September 25, 2014. Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman. John Chapman, also known as Johnny Appleseed, serves as an example of a part of the religious fervor on the western frontier in the years before the Civil War. Johnny Appleseed had been on the frontier for several decades before coming to Fort Wayne, possibly as early as 1822. A holy...
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History Center Notes & Queries: Hands-On History for Kids
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History Center Notes and Queries. Our Stories from Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana. About The History Center. People Behind the Posts. Hands-On History for Kids. Hands-On History for Kids. At the History Center, we are committed to education, especially for school kids, and the best way for kids to learn about history is for them to get their hands on it! If you are a teacher, a parent, or grandparent, these posts can help you start a lively conversation about our past. Learn to use natural dyes.
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History Center Notes & Queries: April 2014
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History Center Notes and Queries. Our Stories from Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana. About The History Center. People Behind the Posts. Hands-On History for Kids. Thursday, April 24, 2014. Thanks to Horace Rockwell, the first known itinerant artist to visit and make a living in Fort Wayne, we have the Samuel Hanna Family portrait in the Fort Wayne Museum of Art’s collection. It depicts the prominent Fort Wayne Hanna family grouped around a table in a conversational setting. Reports of the day referen...
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History Center Notes & Queries: November 2014
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History Center Notes and Queries. Our Stories from Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana. About The History Center. People Behind the Posts. Hands-On History for Kids. Monday, November 17, 2014. What the Election of 1864 Can Teach Us about 2014. By Thomas E. Schneider. University of St. Francis Political Science Professor. Originally presented at the ACPL on November 9, 2014. A Democrat for Running Mate. Why did they do it? Challenges from Within the Party. A Bad Choice, Avoided. Have you ever taken the p...
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History Center Notes & Queries: July 2014
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History Center Notes and Queries. Our Stories from Fort Wayne and Allen County, Indiana. About The History Center. People Behind the Posts. Hands-On History for Kids. Thursday, July 31, 2014. A Park at the Headwaters. Headwaters Park was created by the citizens of Fort Wayne through their donations, ideas, and labor as a means of flood control in the city. Earlier designs had a similar purpose. Dam on the St. Joseph River. Maumee River from Main Street Bridge. St Mary's River from Spy Run Avenue Bridge.