Western Wayne Heritage, Inc.

Western Wayne Heritage, Inc. Western Wayne Heritage Inc is a Central Corporation. This organization is registered with the IRS and is required to file an IRS Form 990-N. 351630455

Meetings are currently held on the 3rd Tuesday of every Month at 7pm.

Got warm today GenX 💦 🔫
05/29/2026

Got warm today GenX 💦 🔫

Throw Back Thursday Way back to 1912 and this fantastic Post Card !!! 📬 💌
05/28/2026

Throw Back Thursday

Way back to 1912 and this fantastic Post Card !!! 📬 💌

🎆 🇺🇸 🪙 A new Declaration of Independence quarter will be put into circulation beginning on June 1 ahead of America's 250...
05/27/2026

🎆 🇺🇸 🪙 A new Declaration of Independence quarter will be put into circulation beginning on June 1 ahead of America's 250th anniversary. 🇺🇸 💰 🧨

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from...
05/25/2026

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman."

~ The American Crisis No.1, Thomas Paine

🇺🇸 Memorial Day 🇺🇸
05/25/2026

🇺🇸 Memorial Day 🇺🇸

"The distinction between a well regulated army, & a mob, is the good order & discipline of the first, & the licentious &...
05/24/2026

"The distinction between a well regulated army, & a mob, is the good order & discipline of the first, & the licentious & disorderly behaviour of the latter; Men, therefore, who are not employed, as mere hirelings, but have step’d forth in defence of every thing that is dear & valuable, not only to themselves but to posterity, should take uncommon pains to conduct themselves with uncommon propriety & good order; as their honor reputation & call loudly upon them for it."

~George Washington, Orders to Major General Israel Putnam, August 25, 1776.

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05/24/2026

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When 3 tea ships arrived in Boston Harbor, protesters demanded the cargo be sent back to England. After colonial leaders...
05/23/2026

When 3 tea ships arrived in Boston Harbor, protesters demanded the cargo be sent back to England. After colonial leaders were ignored, a group of men, many disguised as Mohawk Indians, boarded the ships on the night of December 16, 1773.

Samuel Sprague (1753–1844) was a 20-year-old mason’s apprentice when he randomly joined the Boston Tea Party. On his way to visit a young woman on the night of December 16, 1773, he stumbled upon a group of men heading to Griffin’s Wharf and decided to join.

Sprague was among the protesters who boarded the Dartmouth, Eleanor, and Beaver and dumped 342 chests of British tea (equivalent to $2.3 million today) into Boston Harbor.

Sprague served during the American Revolutionary War and spent much of his life working as a laborer and craftsman. By the mid 19th century, he had become something of a historical curiosity because he personally remembered major Revolutionary era events that by then already seemed very distant to most Americans.

He lived into his 90s and passed away in 1843. In his later years, newspapers and historians often interviewed him as one of the last surviving participants of the Boston Tea Party, making him a direct living connection to the founding generation of the United States.

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P. O. Box 254
Cambridge City, IN
47327

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