The area includes key tourist attractions including history and heritage, monuments and museums. So whether you are into antiques, history, prairies or farm tours our area is for you.
The Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home is in Dixon and is restored to the 1920's when Ronald Reagan and his family lived there. The facility offers guided tours and a visitor center and gift shop.
The John Deere Historic Site is where John Deere forged the first successful steel plow able to break the tough and sticky native sod and thus open up farming in the Midwest. The site has an archeological museum of the original shop and an operating blacksmith shop along with the original Deer home and a pavilion and gift shop.
The Amboy Depot Museum is housed in the 1876 Illinois Central Railroad Depot. The 19-room museum is a fully restored depot reflecting the history of the Amboy area.
The Mills & Petrie Memorial houses the Village of Ashton offices and the City library. It is named after a pair of Civil War veterans that "adopted" the village.
The National Headquarters for the Historic Lincoln Highway Association (the first transcontinental highway - 1913) is located in the Historic H.I. Lincoln Building in Franklin Grove. This classic stone building of the 1860's houses the Lincoln Highway Museum.
The Lincoln State Memorial is the only known statue of Abraham Lincoln in military uniform. The young 23-year-old Lincoln is depicted as Captain of the Sangamon County Volunteers and stands tall on the north bank of the Rock River at the site of Fort Dixon where soldiers served during the Blackhawk Indian War of 1832.