Community Buildings… Gage’s Driving Park 30 Mar 202129 Mar 2021 During the late nineteenth century into the early twentieth century, people found a variety of ways to entertain themselves. In McHenry, one of the more popular forms of entertainment was…
Community Events Armistice Day & the “Home-Coming For The Boys” 9 Nov 201921 Nov 2019 The United States wasn't in the First World War for long, but when it did become involved, the nation fully immersed itself in the conflict. Overall, the county bought over…
Community Events Decoration Day in 19th Century McHenry 21 May 201920 May 2019 Following the Civil War, the nation was looking for various way to heal itself and deal with the carnage it had just gone through. Decorating the graves of fallen Civil…
Community Events… Operation Alert 8 Feb 201831 Mar 2018 In the 1950s, the US was in the tensest time of the Cold War. This new type of war brought a new variety of fears due to the weapons of…
Churches… The McHenry Lyceum 27 Jul 201712 Sep 2017 During the early 1920s, Rev. Father Martin J. McEvoy of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church brought a series of concerts and other entertaining acts to McHenry in the form of a…
Community Events… The Masquerade Ball of February 1878 1 Jun 201712 Sep 2017 In August of 1919, a local resident named “Buff” Feltz stopped by the McHenry Plaindealer office with an old dance program he found in walls of a Crystal Lake house…
