Grand opening Native American Village, music, re-enactors in 19th Century dress, Whitman Post Archeology.

On a forested bluff overlooking the Rock and Pecatonica Rivers in Rockton, are the remnants of Winnebago County’s earliest
settlement. It was founded in the mid-1830’s by Stephen Andrew Mack, Jr., and his wife, Hononegah. Macktown, then known as Pekatonic, represents a time and place of change on the Illinois frontier when the fur trade collided with a progressive world.

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