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Allen County & Northern Indiana Area History

Nestled In The Fort Wayne Metro Area
Situated On The Border Of Allen County & Wells County
  
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Allen County is named after Colonel John Allen, an attorney and Kentucky state senator who was killed in the War of 1812. The county itself was formed in 1824, the same year that Fort Wayne was chosen as the county seat.
 
The Allen County courthouse was designed by Brentwood S. Tolan of Fort Wayne, and was built by James Stewart and company of St. Louis, MO. When the cornerstone was laid in 1897, the oldest man in the county, Louis Peltier (who still remembered Fort Wayne when it was a fort), was present. The beaux-arts style courthouse was completed in 1903, and is said to be one of the most expensive courthouses in the state. It was filled with artwork that cost more than other entire courthouses of the time. The building is now used mostly as a government annex.
 
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