Not only is it excellent hiking, but picnic tables are available in summer months. Bordering the golf course, the trail has an area with a number of trees identified see map. The Park Department has recently established a Physical Fitness Trail that can be used to meet most of the scouting skill award requirements. Follow Map and Read Policy. Colonel David N. Foster has been intimately identified with nearly every activity designed for the good of the people of Fort Wayne.
It is of such a man that this sketch treats a type of citizen which has enabled Fort Wayne to take and maintain a leading position among the municipalities of the middle west. Lawrence, an old timeNew York City dry goods merchant. In , Col. With this regiment he saw three years of service in the Union Army, resigning because of disability arising from wounds. In he was attracted into the field of newspape rs and withdrew from the Terre Haute firm.
At Grand Rapids, Michigan he established the Saturday Evening Post, a literary and newspaper, an enterprise which met with marked success. One of the earliest acts of Col. Foster, which exhibits his public-spiritedness, was the effort to secure the passage by the Indiana legislature in of the Public Library Act, having libraries come under the direct control of the boards of public school trustees, and be established through the levying of a special tax by the city council.
The present public library and its excellent management are the outgrowth of this pioneer effort. Foster organized the Fort Wayne Land and Improvement Company, which assumed the big task of creating the present beautiful section of the city known as Lakeside.
With a firm belief that saloons should not be permitted in residential districts, he advised that the sale of liquors be forever prohibited in that addition consisting of one hundred and sixty acres, and the company so decided. The same clause was subsequently placed in the provisions of other contiguous and neighboring additions, until an area of acres in that part of the city never know the presence of a saloon.
