Note 59 — Front matter (continued 3)

(page page 118).—Buffalo Grove was a small settlement, commenced about 1827-28 by O. W. Kellogg, ten miles north from Dixon’s Ferry, on the Galena road, or Kellogg’s Trail; so called, because, in 1827, Kellogg first opened this path from Peoria to the Galena lead mines. The trail originally crossed the Rock River a few miles above the present Dixon; but in 1828 was diverted to the site of what at first was called Dixon’s Ferry, but later was abbreviated to Dixon’s, and finally to Dixon.