The Fort Wayne Aviation Company
As you drive west from Waynedale to 5036 Lower Huntington Road, before you get to Smith Road, you come to what was once the Fort Wayne Aviation Company. . . Read More
The Tower and the Church
In the late 1920’s a first lone gasoline pump occupied the northwest corner of Old Trail and Lower Huntington Roads, where East of Chicago Pizza now resides. The sign at the corner often said: ‘Out of . . . Read More
In May 1944, Lester and Bertha Umber converted an old gas station at the corner of Lower Huntington Road and Old Trail Road into a hardware store. They started with $700 in inventory and approximately 1000 square foot of floor space. . . Read More
Waynedale Annexed, June 1957
Editors Note: This article was found in The Waynedale News archives. The writer is unknown.
The 1956 election was a sweep of the Republicans in the County and State. . . Read More
The Lincoln Highway holds a lot of memories, other than coast to coast. The two-lane road with its twists and turns yielded to a top speed of 45 mile per hour. . . Read More
Early 1900s
Previous issues traced the adventures and growth of Waynedale. The early 1900s were the creation years of Waynedale. In 1918 World War I bonded us together, as did the previous community experience. . . Read More
After the 1929 stock market crash our nation was thrown into a disastrous depression. One of the resulting freedoms exercised was the way of life of the hobo.
The first 15 years of my life I spent very close to the trainmen on the Lake Erie & . . . Read More
Waynedale 1929/1930
Before the Great Depression, Waynedale was all for growth…new adventures, new businesses and exciting new gadgets to affect our way of life.
Bowser Pump had a good sales force and top-notch inventors, but they needed help . . . Read More
PRAIRIE GROVE CHURCH AND CEMETERY
The society that used to meet at Prairie Grove Chapel in Wayne Township was organized in 1888, but is really a reorganization of an older class, possibly the United Brethren Society, which dates back to 1854. . . Read More
Speaking of Telephones
At the New York 1876 Centennial Celebration, manufacturers hawked and boasted of upcoming inventions that would revolutionize the pioneer’s way of life. Some introductions included the typewriter, Edison’s mimeograph, . . . Read More
Waynedale’s First Library
In 1928 Nobles Homestore acquired an Allen County Public Library Depository. As the picture shows it was squeezed into a corner. If you wished to sit, you sat as my Dad, Edgar B. . . Read More
NOBLES HOME STORE-
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In 1925 we added a room that housed a large cold storage area for fresh meat. It had a display case and a huge round butcher block. . . Read More
The building pictured below was located at McArthur Drive and Ideal Avenue. It was built by Forest May and plastered by Ruhl Buskirk. Forest was our neighbor from across the street and as you may guess, they were paid in ‘trade’. . . Read More
The first trading in this area was the French hunter befriending the Indians for the fur business. The region was abounding with deer, wild turkey, bobcat, wolf, rattlesnake, beaver, otter, pheasant, squirrel, and raccoon. . . Read More
The Growth of Waynedale Transportation
Pioneers with their families pushed westward with all of their possessions led by trusty horses or, like the ancestors of Mrs. Violet Fairfield Meyers, came west via oxen pulling a Conestoga wagon capable of . . . Read More
FIRST MILLIONAIRE IN WAYNEDALE
Waynedale’s first millionaire was Miami Indian Chief Jean (John) Baptiste De Richardville. Chief Richardville’s parents and ancestors were well known Indian traders. His mother, Ta-Cum-Wa was a sister of . . . Read More
Barb Noble dropped her husband, Ed off at The Waynedale News on Wednesday. Ed came in carrying a large picture of the Chamber of Commerce of Waynedale Charter Membership. The 2ft x 3ft picture frame listed 42 Chamber members from 1930. . . Read More
This month the Wayne Township Trustee Office celebrates not only Women’s History Month and St. Patrick’s Day, but the beginning of spring, a season of looking forward to great weather and moving more of our activities outdoors. . . Read More
Throughout the month of October, the Allen County Public Library’s Genealogy Center is celebrating Family History Month with a full thirty-one days of programming geared toward seasoned and beginning researchers looking to make new discoveries about . . . Read More
The Historic Waynedale Pop-up Museum recently completed its first week with great success! Many community members stopped in to view the collection, talk about “the old days,” and revel in the preservation of the hundreds of items, some well over . . . Read More
For many of us, summer means outings to the state fair and steam engine shows. But what do we know about the story and significance of steam power? For much of history, the only way people traveled was by foot or horse. . . Read More
Happy New Year!
As we begin 2016, I thought I’d cover some loose ends from late 2014 and 2015 while giving you a taste of things to come in 2016 too. . . Read More
Late one chill October evening in the fall of 1936, four men sat around a glowing cannonball stove in the Roehm Garage near the Bluffton and Sandpoint Roads trading stories about hunting and discussing possibilities of improving it in the county. . . Read More
Lynn Brown is truly someone you’d want on your Trivial Pursuit team. She’s writing a whole series of historical novels dedicated to bringing outcast and forgotten figures from Indiana’s past to new life during the mostly overlooked period between the War of 1812 and the American Civil War. . . Read More
Waynedale has always been a place that residents and former residents hold close to their heart. Those who do or have lived within the area have many great memories. This Waynedale.com . . Read More
