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Dixon is a city and the county seat of Lee County, Illinois, United States. [2] The population was 15,274 as of the 2020 census. The city is named after founder John Dixon, who operated a rope ferry service across the Rock River , which runs through the city. [ 3 ]
T. J. O’Brien Lock and Dam on the Calumet River, part of the Illinois Waterway. A series of eight locks, managed by the Army Corps of Engineers, controls water flow from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi River system.
The following is a timeline for Google Street View, a technology implemented in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides ground-level interactive panoramas of cities. The service was first introduced in the United States on May 25, 2007, and initially covered only five cities: San Francisco, Las Vegas, Denver, Miami, and New York City.
Dixon's Ferry was the former name for Dixon, Illinois, United States. It was located on the bank of the Rock River near present-day Illinois Route 26. John Dixon operated a rope ferry service to transport mail from Peoria to Galena, and he also established the first post office. The surrounding settlement was known as Dixon's Ferry. [1]
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A johnboat in Florida, 1972 A small modern johnboat in the bed of a pickup truck. A johnboat [1] is a flat-bottomed boat [2] constructed of aluminum, fiberglass, wood, or polyethelene with one, two, or three seats, usually bench type.
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