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…
Churches… Red Faber Pitches in McHenry 27 Mar 201722 Mar 2017 In the summer of 1935 St. Mary's softball charity game proved to be a memorable one. It pitted teams from the McHenry Elderly Men and St. Mary's Holy Name Society…
Businesses… McHenry’s Dollar Days 30 Jun 20162 Oct 2016 During most of the 20th Century, McHenry had a semi-annual event called Dollar Day. Eventually, in the 1950s as the event became more popular, Dollar Days that was held most often over…
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