Collecting in Fort Wayne, Indiana

[pefty]

I would like help clarifying whether a memory I have is accurate. It's about Fort Wayne, Indiana.

 

I recall stopping in Fort Wayne, Indiana, or the suburbs thereof, at a quarry entrance, in ~2012. We did not enter the quarry, we just picked from the little garden of fossil-rich rocks that the quarry had dumped out in a public area for public use. I recall picking classic Middle Devonian fossils from a carbonaceous shale / shaley limestone that I assume was the Silica Formation. This would have been overburden worth dumping for a quarry quarrying the underlying Dundee Limestone, so piles of Silica Formation fossils make sense logically.

 

I know the quarry at Paulding, Ohio, has something similar -- a community fossil garden out front. But this memory of mine seems to be associated with a Fort Wayne quarry. Is my brain totally making it up? Has anyone been to this place in Fort Wayne?

 

Thanks.