There are some great new items in our
Allen County Resources page, touching on many aspects of life in Allen County, such as schools, sports, religion, government and property, starting with the
Fort Wayne Roundball, 1965-66, the first annual basketball preview for the county (see below). Included are photos and rosters for the various high school teams and includes photos of the cheerleaders and advertisements. Sticking with sports, we have
Zollner Pistons: 1940-1957 From YMCA to NBA--The Rise and Demise of the Zollner Pistons, which contains information about Fred Zollner, team rosters, All-Stars, and a year-by-year history.
We also have a few new General Electric Company materials, such as
Elex Club scrapbooks for 1953-53, 1953, 1954-1955, 1954-1955 #2, 1955-1956, 1978-1984, a
Pen-EL Scrapbook,
GE Elex Partizan Scrapbook, 1952-1960 and the
GE Elex Quintus Scrapbook, 1978-1983.
Some new church records now grace our pages, such as
Allen County Methodist Church Records for Arcola 1914-2015, Hoagland 1892-1921, and the Sheldon Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 1879-1891. There is a
Faith United Church of Christ 25th Anniversary booklet, 1968-1993, complete with photographs, a booklet for the
Golden Jubilee Honoring the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Charles H. Thiele, 1888-1938, St. Peter Church, and a booklet for the
St. Peter’s Catholic Church, Diamond Jubilee, 1872-1947.
Dutch Ridge Remembered--1900, Cedar Creek, Allen County, Indiana recalls the community on Old Auburn Road, just south of the DeKalb County line, and has many families noted and a great map (see below), and
Community Development Photos include a number of historic houses arranged by district.
You can examine the
Park Master Plan Phase I for Fort Wayne, part of the Parks and Recreation section of the Community Development Library, 1974-2002, and see the
Fort Wayne Board of Park Commissioners Annual Reports for 1925 through 1932.
And there is the
Pleasant Township Road Tax Lists, 1880, and in Fort Wayne City Documents, you can find the F
ort Wayne City Inaugural Ceremony, 1960, and
Fort Wayne Police Department the 1990 annual report.
A very useful addition is the
Aboite Township School Enumeration, 1866-1895, and we also have the
Aboite Township School Trustees Records, 1867-1893, Allen County, Indiana, as well as additional
Fort Wayne Public Schools and Public Library directories for 1929-1930, 1933-1934 and 1950-1951.
We have
club records for Morning Star 346,
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Theta Upsilon Lambda Chapter, Fort Wayne, 2016, and
Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Fall Reunion 1928, Valley of Fort Wayne.
We have Updated
Abstracts of Title (Williams Addition), Bercot Addition, Lot 20, Ewing Addition, Lots 5 and 10, and South Wood Park Addition, Lot 83.
And finally, we have updated the
Fort Wayne/Allen County Obituaries Index, which brings the total number of indexed obituaries to 11, 306 and the
2017 Lindenwood burials.
Anyone researching Fort Wayne and Allen County needs to check out these great sources!