Maps
Seven plates of this place, drawn between 1803 and 1898. A government survey of the ground the fort stood on, the commandant's own plan of the fort, and a county atlas made when the county was sixty years old.
Every plate runs whole and uncropped except at its own printed border. Each one says where it came from, which leaf of which scan it was taken off, what was done to it, and what may be done with it.
1803Freeman’s 1803 survey, the eastern sheetThe six mile square ruled into numbered posts, with the St. Mary's and the St. Joseph meeting to make the Maumee, Fort Wayne lettered at the junction, and the roads to the portage and to Detroit crossing it.The Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, Indiana, by B. J. Griswold, 1917, printed page 161, scan leaf n168.
1803A map of the reservations at Fort Wayne, surveyed June 1803The whole survey in a single view, both reserves together, with the rivers, the portage road and the wet prairie south of it drawn in hatching.Fort Wayne, Gateway of the West, 1802-1813, edited by Bert J. Griswold, Indiana Historical Collections volume XV, 1927, the plate facing printed folio 132, scan leaf n154.
1803Freeman’s 1803 survey, the western sheetThe surveyor's own title panel and compass needle, with the smaller reserve on the Little River ruled into lots and the portage road running off towards the landing.The Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, Indiana, by B. J. Griswold, 1917, printed page 160, scan leaf n167.
1816Major Whistler’s plan of Fort Wayne, August 1816The fort drawn from above: a picket square with a blockhouse at each corner, the buildings ranged inside it, and the river running past one face.The Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, Indiana, by B. J. Griswold, 1917, printed page 157, scan leaf n164.
1816Whistler’s ground outside the pickets, 1816The agency houses drawn one by one and numbered, with the Indian Agent's garden fenced off beside them.The Pictorial History of Fort Wayne, Indiana, by B. J. Griswold, 1917, printed page 156, scan leaf n163.
1898Outline map of Allen County, 1898The county as twenty tinted townships, each ruled into numbered sections, with the towns, the railroads and the rivers threading through them.Standard Atlas of Allen County, Indiana, Geo. A. Ogle and Co., Chicago, printed page 7, scan leaf n10.
1898Outline street and ward map of Fort Wayne, 1898The city in ten tinted wards, every street named, with the three rivers and the railroad lines cutting across them.Standard Atlas of Allen County, Indiana, Geo. A. Ogle and Co., Chicago, printed page 9, scan leaf n12.
The 1898 atlas holds far more than the two plates here. Six two-page maps of the city, a plate for every township and a plat for every village are all in the same volume, and they are listed in the follow-ups as work not yet done rather than left unmentioned.
There is no street index. The plates letter their streets and nothing here reads them yet.