The community raised funds and erected a grandstand at Kekionga Base Ball Grounds, located on the former Union Army training grounds, Camp Allen. The grandstand was called "The Grand Dutchess" because of its lavish construction. (The publication "Batter Up" refers to the grandstand as the Grand Dutchess, not the Old Dutchess. It is also called the Grand Dutchess in "Twentieth Century History of Fort Wayne", by John Ankenbruck and in an article in the "Fort Wayne Daily Sentinel", November 6, 1871.)