Beyond Utica The Society has a number of other sites located in the county.
Col. Hitt’s “Fort” The “fort,” on Adams Street in Ottawa is in fact a stone shelter for a well belonging to Col. Daniel F. Hitt, a prominent farmer and civic leader in the nineteenth century. It is popularly known as Col. Hitt’s fort.
Steam Engine
The Society has a steam locomotive (the CB & Q), tender, and caboose on loan to the Mendota Railroad Museum, in Mendota, at the Amtrak station and railroad museum.
Charles A. Lindbergh Marker
A marker celebrating Charles A. Lindbergh’s flights from Chicago to St. Louis delivering mail is located in nearby Wedron. Lindbergh and others flew over LaSalle County and occasionally landed in a farm field because of bad weather. Artifacts from Lindbergh’s 1926 crash in Wedron, including his broken propeller, are on display in the museum.
