Dixon was established in 1830 at the Rock River crossing on the Peoria-Galena Trail. Two years later, during the Black Hawk War, Capt. Abraham Lincoln of the Sangamon County Volunteers served here with two individuals who would later factor into the nation’s history: Zachary Taylor, then leader of the 1st Infantry Regiment and later the nation’s 12th president; and Jefferson Davis, who served in the regiment and later became the president of the Confederate States of America. Lincoln's election as captain of his fellow volunteers was his first elective office. Learn More...