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Fort Wayne

Description: Fort Wayne, Indiana's second largest city after Indianapolis, is a city in northeastern Indiana, USA and the county ... more

Fort Wayne ... seat of Allen County. Nearly equidistant from Chicago, Cincinnati, and Detroit, it has historically served as a transportation and communications center for the region, and an incubator for many products and companies.

Newest Review: ... It is a madhouse. it is the right thing, for the right reasons but we got lost. Fort Wayne used to have one of the largets spool factories in the world making spools for virtually every spool of thread in the country. In mid-April they hold the spool show where kids come and show off the brightly painted snake and animal puppets they make out of spools. Sorry to my aunt nancy who runs ... more

... this, but you seen one spool show and you have seen them all. What a waste of time and spools. In November is the annual Corn Husk Doll show two weekends prior to Thanksgiving. It demonstrates this old prairie art of making precious dolls from corn b...more

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Fort Wayne: The Festivals of fort wayne (1306 words)
by - written on 15/06/07 (Very useful, 120 readings)
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I was pleasently surprised to find my home town of Fort Wayne ready and waiting to be reviewed on Dooyoo. Even though we are a simple city of just a quarter million souls lacking professional sports and big city glitz we have a sundry of exciting family oriented activities. Our city was founded 10 1794 on the basis of a Fort Named after the pre-emiminate Indian fighter named Mad Anthony Wayne who I believe was also famous for fighting some other European Country who would lock our children in schools and churches and burn them down until a guy who looked like Mel Gibson made them stop, but that was a long time ago. What we are famous for are all ... Read the complete review