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Fort Wayne
Pioneer newspaperman George W. Wood was elected the city's first mayor. Fort Wayne's "Summit City" nickname dates from this period, referring to the city's position at the highest elevation along the canal's route. As influential as the canal was to the city's earliest development, it quickly became obsolete after briefly competing with the city's first railroad, the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway, completed in 1854.
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Name: Fort Wayne topographic map, elevation, terrain.
Location: Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, United States (40.96510 -85.30348 41.20052 -85.00073)
Average elevation: 246 m
Minimum elevation: 182 m
Maximum elevation: 279 m
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The first settlement started in 1815. In 1819, the military garrison abandoned the fort and moved to Detroit. In 1822, a federal land office opened to sell land ceded by local Native Americans by the Treaty of St. Mary's in 1818. Platted in 1823 at the Ewing Tavern, the village became an important frontier…
Average elevation: 248 m
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