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Of Kentucky.EARLY HISTORY OP FORT WAYNE.BT TUB ED IT DU.thisdllCanyThithe183beehohbutsis'Sta'JutMeTeaAn,andiofIn resuming the Early History of fr ort M ayne, we confess to an embarrassment, in adopting a System or plan on which In present those matters occurring within {lie time which we passed oteflast week, commencing in 1S23, and running up to.1630, and in some matters as late as 16335 but shall do the best we can under, the circumstances.The Masonic History is presented on the out-sMtfoftiiis paper, as having begun in'May 1823; but in' that we omitted to stale, first—that }Y*yno Lodge No. 25, V. A. M., was organized -wtffcui the pickets of the Fort in a ramu then occupied by General Jolm Tipton, whcvo they continued to hold it ’for some time, and then it was held in ft room of the old Mulshing ion Ilali, oa the South West comer of Columbia and Harr streets; after which'-ve have no information in what place it met, till the society got into the Lodge Room or the Hall.. The other omission was, in not stating the reason of the Lodge hav-1 ing ceased to work at the period when it is staled | ^ that U sold its Hall and lot This may be stated 1 iii few words: The Anti-lfa*o» ie feeling arising ' cut of the. abditcrion. of Morgan, at BaUivia, A «w fork—ft thing which was seized upon bypoliti-. cal demagogues; and, strange as it may seem at i j” this day—but nevertheless true—mis made to j form the issue on which that infamous class al-1 luded to (lt;fewutp0'?Me*)5iezod,and by it indue nerd the minds of the people ; and which, for a term ol yoars, prostrated the success of that ancient Rnd'vwy honorable and praiswortliy society in Uic United Stales; while in Cuuaua and in other puiccj beyond the United States, where it coulil not be dragged into politics, the good work w as not retarded.’ In alluding to the original plat of Fori M ayne, laid out in 1824, we forgot, last week, to state that it was recorded, as were many other matters, requiring such perpetuation, in the county -of-Randolph, from which it and others wero subsequently transferred, af may be seen by reference to tho books in the Recorder’s ollice, of now Allen county. Ity deed of Barr and McCor fclc—Proprietors of the town, it appears that they donated four rods square,next the norlh-west ' corner of the Original Plat of the town, for a church and burying ground,to be occupied by no particular denomination, but free to all, except no-much as might he necessary on which to build any church that might first he organized here and build an edifice thereon. Also a lot of the same size, immediately Host, and adjoining the above donation, for n Seminary of learning’ All natural traces of these donations having been long since removed, we lake pleasure in staling for the benefit of the curious, that the grave yard and ehureh-lot occupied the rear parts, ns far as tho bank ovcrlwnging the river lioltinii, of lots 074 and 575, while the schoo1-housc-lot laid ex-ncUj behind D7l. in Uial part of the city laid off bv Judge llanna, in about I M i l, being after he had bought the inUwesl of Harr and McTorklc. in all of Fort AVayne, a purchase embracing the last they owned herein. It may be inure delinitc to state. Hint all this donated [irujierly Blood exactly West of Uio now county jail-lot on Calhoun, North of Water street. It may be further proper to explain that the school hmiso-lot, ^ehureh-lot and grave yard 1 laving become no longer used for the purposes for which Uic ground was given, it reverted back to Samuel Hanna as tho assignee of the donors. The remains of the many dead, such ns could be found Ukjsc not having loving and aide friends sur-virig, were removed at public expense, and those whose living friends bestowed thought ami exhibited airuclion, »l private expense, to the new cemetery, South-West of town, IblW, or 1H30. In this old school-house, many of there then young, but now past middle life, who yet live here, and many dead, and others absent, had their early training for useinliitss; ami many there experienced those joys only to he once enjoyed in a lifetime; while, perhaps, nearly every loacher who llicrc dicipiined the youthful mind, has gone to his final account, ami soon here to be entirely forgotten. It is u theme on which we would dwell—bid, to our purpose, it ii. foreign to muse here, aii-1 we leave it lillli a sigh contributed to those who, from thirty live to twenty live years since, within the hallowed walls of that old school-house, lived and learned,■ and loved in unalloyed earthly bliss.This old Schnnbhouse was built of brick in about 1835, and was then quite largo enough for all needed purposes, but would now be considered very small 11 was only one sLory iu hcigl tb, and served for many years,not only as a school-house, but, iw the place for religious worship, loun meeting?, masouiu installations, political speeches, c. Perhaps John I’. Pudges, now living here, was the first teacher in Iheold house, | wlio had it plastered at bis own expense in llic winter of 1820 and ’’27, but who succeeded him we arc not able now to ascertain, except it be that Jesse A. Aughinbaugllgifter having kept a while the County Seminary: in the Masonic Hall, taught at the old School-housc,-s4-least as early as 1833 and afterward*. Hemy Cooper, Esq. early taught in the old cnuuLj jail, a rude structure of logs on the S. Vi. earner of the public square— exactly wliure the lien inter’s office now Shimls— anil which jail remained there uu eye-sore to the public, till about 1847.Pill)JUTE fViEKV.
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Fort Wayne Weekly Times
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Thu, Dec 23, 1858
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