BEATTIE PARK

 

The Beattie Park Mound Group is located in downtown Rockford, Illinois' Beattie Park. It consists of three mounds (one outside the park boundaries), an effigy mound in the shape of a turtle, and a linear mound. Beattie Park is north of Park Avenue and south of Mound Avenue, but there is one mound in front of the house at 509 Indian Terrace. On its west, the park is bounded by Main Street and to its east lies the Rock River.

Mounds are the most visible evidence of cultures which once exploited the plant and animal species that the mix of biomes in northern Illinois provided. Mound groupings, primarily located along waterways, as is the case with the Beattie Park Mounds, are found south of the hardwood forests and stretch from the Upper Mississippi Valley to Lake Michigan. Mostly found north of the southern edge of the prairie (a line a few miles south of the Illinois-Wisconsin border) at the Rock River the mound groupings dip south into Illinois and continue west toward Dubuque, Iowa.

 

BEATTIE PARK PICTURES

 

History of Winnebago County-1877

 

 

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