Source: Rockford Register Star, August 9, 2019
A Digital Collection of Rockford, Illinois History
Source: Rockford Register Star, August 9, 2019
Source: Rockford Register Star, April 12, 2019
In 2000, Natural Land Institute purchased a 721 acre farm near Rockton
Raccoon Creek runs through property
restored to 100 acres of prairie, 150 acres of woodland, 450 acres of wetlands
Ill Dept of Natural Resources & U S Fish and Wildlife funded restoration of creek
Source: Northwest Quarterly magazine, Summer 2008, Vol 5, No 2