Brookview-Irvington Park Historic District

These results have only been attained by the patient, effective labor and untiring energy, appropriated by those having in charge the conduct of the several depart¬ ments of their work. In the preparation of the maps, Messrs. Ellis Kiser and J. A. Johnson, Engineers, have done themselves credit in the completeness, accu¬ racy and finish which characterize their productions. As an artist, Mr: Charles H. Radcliff has acquitted himself with honor, which entitles him to high rank in his profession, as the effusions of his pencil fully attest. And, finally, not only the editor and proprietors, but the citizens of Fort Wayne especially, and ot Allen County generally, owe much to the thoroughness and efficiency of the labors of Mr. Kiser in collecting the details of business and historical miscellany of the city and county, than whom no one, in the opinion of the editor, could have more faithfully ar.d satisfactorily performed the task.

Passage source: History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880.

That this route was probably traveled at a much earlier date, even, than that usually claimed for it, is at least strongly suggested by a map published as early as 1657. drawn, no doubt, two or three years before, by M. de Sanson, Royal Geographer to the King of France, designed to accurately represent the relative situation of New France, with its numerous lakes, rivers and mountains, to the best advantage. By this map, a copy of which has been published in this country, Lake Erie is located with considerable accuracy, " with a river flowing into it from the southwest, for a distance, clearly representing the present course of the Maumee, from the site of Fort Wayne to the Lake. The St. Mary's and St. Joseph's are not delineated, showing that their courses had not yet been explored."

Passage source: History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880.

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