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Sauk Valley Views I hope you enjoy my photos from around the Sauk Valley area. I was formerly part of Timeless Exposures, but now I am on my own. Thanks for looking! Nikki

This isn't in the Sauk Valley area, it's in SE Iowa, some crazy weather came through!
07/30/2024

This isn't in the Sauk Valley area, it's in SE Iowa, some crazy weather came through!

Byron nuclear plant. I took these a few years ago.
11/28/2023

Byron nuclear plant.
I took these a few years ago.

03/16/2022

Dixon, Illinois. Found this while out taking pictures...initials J.B. 1948. Does anyone want to take credit for this? 😃 (may have to zoom into the stone to see it)

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12/24/2021

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11/07/2021

My husband I got lucky enough to capture this last summer. If you haven’t made it to Nachusa Grasslands yet, you should!

My daughter wanted some pictures with the sunflowers. If you haven’t went and checked out the field in Sterling yet, you...
09/04/2020

My daughter wanted some pictures with the sunflowers. If you haven’t went and checked out the field in Sterling yet, you should!

Cool old bridge we found riding backroads somewhere on the way to Galena, Illinois.
05/31/2020

Cool old bridge we found riding backroads somewhere on the way to Galena, Illinois.

These are some photos my dad took in 1984 when Ronald Reagan returned to Dixon to celebrate his 73rd birthday during his...
04/07/2020

These are some photos my dad took in 1984 when Ronald Reagan returned to Dixon to celebrate his 73rd birthday during his first term as president.

I was only 12 but I remember it well. It was a really, really cold February day!

Do you remember?

I took these photos a few years ago. Dixon, Illinois. This facility opened as the Illinois State Colony for Epileptics o...
04/05/2020

I took these photos a few years ago. Dixon, Illinois.

This facility opened as the Illinois State Colony for Epileptics on May 1, 1918. Originally intended to house and care for epileptics, it eventually included care for the mentally underdeveloped as well. It was then renamed Dixon State Hospital and later Dixon State School. The Department of Mental Health took control of Dixon State School in 1961 and changed its name to Dixon Developmental Center in 1975.

The first burial in this cemetery was in 1920 and the last burial was in 1979. A total of 2,189 persons are buried here. Headstones were erected from 1920 through January 4, 1949 (burial number 1,076). Burials after that date have flat grave markers through the final burial on October 3, 1979 (burial number 2,189). Starting with burial number 272 most headstones or flat grave markers have the burial number engraved on them. Burial numbers run consecutively by date of death so finding a grave is very easy as both headstones and flat grave markers have the name and date of death engraved. Most flat markers are also engraved with the date of birth. Note that many of the older headstones are becoming difficult to read.

(Information taken from find-a-grave website)

Nachusa Grasslands.
03/24/2020

Nachusa Grasslands.

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