Source: above: Rockford Register Star 9/20/2011
Beattie Park
Rockford Park District – Playground attendance
General public attendance in seven supervised playgrounds up 6,000: Beattie, Churchill, Southeast, Brown, Sunset, and South. Sharp decrease at Fairgrounds Park and at 10th Ave.
Source: Rockford Morning Star 9/8/1944
Beattie Homestead, now Beattie Park
Beattie Homestead, now Beattie Park, 1920 annual report of the Board of Commissioners, Rockford, Park, District, p.12
Bottom photograph includes Mary I. Beattie and Anna Beattie. Penciled note says Mowry Brown, farmer and carpenter, built the house.
W.C.T.U., Anna Gordon Branch – 1928
Source: Rockford Daily Register-Gazette, July 18, 1928
Honor the Mounds – Aug. 12 – 18, 2015
Source: The Rock River Times, Aug. 12-18, 2015; Susan Johnson, writer of article
Honor the Mounds (Indian Festival) – 2015
Source: Rock River Times, August 5 – 11, 2015
This article is available online at http://rockrivertimes.com and usually available in print at the man Rockford Public Library.
Riverwalk Museum Campus – 2012
Source: Rock River Times July 25-31, 2012 (Vol. 19; No. 40)
Honor the Mounds
Beattie Park
Native Culture
Source: Rock River Times Aug 14-20/2013 Vol. 20, No 42
River Walk – 2006
Source: Rockford Register Star August 30, 2006
205 Indian Terrace
205 Indian Terrace
Formerly called Indian Terrace but ran East / West, prior to Beattie Park existing
Vacant in 1948
Source: 1948 Rockford City Directory
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