Fort Wayne, IN: 1868 and 1880 Map

Great Memories and History of Fort Wayne, Indiana posted
Matthew Zavodny Apparently the city has done some dredging of the St. Marys River. The confluence in this picture was further north-northeast than it is now (it is now just north of the St. Joseph Boulevard/Columbia Street bridge).

Jeff Landis also posted
David Gerlock Actually, this view is looking south. The first street going east and west was Water St. It is now Superior Street. The next streets are what they currently named. Main and Berry. Where the canal was, where you see the long boats, is now where the elevated railroad is. The area just above the river on the right side of the picture where it dips is where Headwaters Park is. Where you see the circle track at the bottom right of the picture is now Lawton Park. And lastly, the road right in the middle of the picture that leads to the covered bridge is where Spy Run is now. As was mentioned, they didn't draw these exactly to scale and they are only a close representation of what it actually looks like.

This shows the canal with some heavy industry downtown. And another reminder that the artists had black smoke coming out of each smokestack because that was a sign of progress. I see a sailboat at the confluence. I wonder how real that was. It had to come down the St. Joe because the two covered bridges are too low for it. And the south side of the St. Mary covered bridge has now road leading to it. Note the horse race track in the lower right corner.

Lauren Wilcox commented on the above posting
 Love these old time images! This is similar to one I have hanging in my home in North Carolina.
[The top image seems to have been cropped from Laren's image.]

Update: 1868 seems to have been a good year for maps.

Great Memories and History of Fort Wayne, Indiana posted

Randy Harter posted
The panoramic map was drawn by a group of German artists in 1880 the last year there was still water in the canal through downtown. By the end of 1881 this portion of the canal had been filled in and railroad tracks (now Norfolk Southern’s) laid atop it.