2010 LHA Conference West Tour – Illinois Lincoln Highway Association

The Beautiful Rock River in Dixon (which looks great, even on a cloudy day)

De Immigrant, located on a levee along the Mississippi River

Iowa and the Mississippi River as seen from the Fulton side

Scenic Stage Line bus awaits the tour group in Fulton, next to the newly opened museum

One special feature of the bus tours was a trip on the beautiful Rock River aboard the Pride of Oregon paddle wheeler

Artist Lorado Taft’s sculpture, the Eternal Indian, overlooks the Rock River in Oregon

Our group disembarks the Pride of Oregon paddle wheel boat

Unique state of Lincoln and Black Hawk in Oregon

We stopped at the John Deere Historic Site in Grand Detour, which is on Route 2 between Dixon and Oregon.

Years ago, a team of archaeology students from the University of Illinois conducted a dig at the site of the original John Deere blacksmith shop