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Encyclopedia Britannica



DIXON

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 348 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DIO-DRO
DIXON , a city and the county seat of Lee county,
Illinois
 , U.S.A., on the
Rock
  river, in the N.W.
part
  of the state. Pop. (1890) 5161; (1900) 7917 (879 foreign-born); (191o) 7216. It is served by the Chicago & North-Western and the
Illinois
  Central railways, and is connected with
Sterling
  by an electric line; freight is shipped over the Hennepin Canal. The city
has two parks of 159 and 6 acres respectively, and there is a Chautauqua Park, where an annual Chautauqua Assembly is held. Dixon is the seat of the Northern Illinois normal school (incorporated in 1884), and of the
Rock
  River military
academy
 . The river furnishes water power for the
street
  railways, electric
lighting
  and a number of manufacturing establishments. Among the manufactures are condensed milk, boxes, wire screens and wire
cloth
 , lawn mowers, gas engines, cement, agricultural implements, shoes and wagons. The place was laid out in 1835 by John Dixon (17841876), the first
white
  settler of Lee county. A bronze tablet in the Howells Building, at the inter-section of First and Peoria Streets, marks the site of his cabin, and in the city cemetery a granite
shaft
  has been erected to his memory. Dixon was chartered as a city in 1859.


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