Site #4- A Memorial to loss and to the rebuilding

Disease...

So many lost their lives to these dreaded diseases, especially children during the early days of our community.

Fire...

Just as the community was becoming established, healthy, wealthy and thriving... destruction hit.

Earthquakes...

Once the town had rebuilt what was lost in the fire in a more substantial manner, destruction hit again.

Diptheria, Typhoid Fever and Spanish Flu took many of our citizens in the early years, especially our young...

Just as the community was coming together, remembering, making changes for the town to be one of the healthiest in the county...

DIXON IN ASHES!!

This photo was taken in front of this site from the railroad tracks just west of North Jackson Street looking at the devastation of this entire block between North Jackson, West B Street, West A Street and North Main Street.

The buildings you can see are all on the east side of North Main Street

(now North First Street)

need to save photos of the pdfs from the other papers on the fire and post here

The citizens of Dixon hardly took a breath, cleaned up, rebuilt in brick or sheet metal, mandated by a new city ordinance in the downtown that no new building could be built of wood...

but then

What had been rebuilt in brick crumbled, especially again in this block... But the citizens of Dixon repaired and rebuilt again in a more substantial manner. However, some of our most significant structures were not earthquake safe and had to be "razed" (torn down). The 80 foot spire of the Baptist Church had to be taken down. Over the years the fronts of the gorgeous bricks had to be covered in stucco to fix bricks that kept breaking...

Walk behind all the buildings in downtown to see the original brick work...

need to save a better photo of this paper SF Call from the pdf