Fort Wayne historically served as a transportation and communication center located at the confluence of the St. Marys and St. Joseph rivers, which meet to form the Maumee River.
Maumee River, referred to in the Ohio Constitution as the Miami River of the Lake
The organization also began to focus on small town needs, transportation around the Maumee River, and other beneficial developments around the area.
The Storm played their home games at the venerable Toledo Sports Arena along the southern banks of the Maumee River in Toledo, Ohio.
In 1935, the Packo family purchased the current wedge-shaped building on the corner of Front and Consaul streets next to the Maumee River, which includes the former Consaul Tavern.
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Sailors were seen there in 1840 as a result of business on the Miami and Erie Canal and the Maumee River, railroad men arrived or were so occupied in the 1860s with the running of the first railroad on May 20, 1852 between Toledo and Chicago, through what would later be called Holland, workers were available for the oil fields that appeared in northwest Ohio in the 1870s and 1880s, and finally the automobile industry provided and still provides work for many in the township.
The canal known as the Wabash & Erie in the 1850s and thereafter, was actually a combination of four canals: the Miami and Erie Canal from the Maumee River near Toledo, Ohio to Junction, Ohio, the original Wabash and Erie Canal from Junction to Terre Haute, Indiana, the Cross Cut Canal from Terre Haute, Indiana to Worthington, Indiana (Point Commerce), and the Central Canal from Worthington to Evansville, Indiana.
By the end of June, the army had reached the rapids of the Maumee River, where Hull committed the first of the errors that would later reflect poorly on him.
In July 1784 the headman of the Ottawa nation granted him a tract of land on the Maumee River on which Fort Miami was later built.