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Category: Historic Structures

Businesses…

McHenry’s Borden Factory

12 Jan 2018
Going into the 1900s, McHenry had a lot going for itself. It was a summer tourist destination and had a great agricultural community. Businesses and factories were also starting to…
Businesses…

The Beginning of McHenry’s Pries Market

31 Aug 20171 Sep 2017
In 1918, William Pries came to McHenry after purchasing the local market from Charles Frett. Frett had been in McHenry for 25 years when he sold the business. It was…
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…
Entertainment…

McHenry’s Skyline Drive-In Theater

30 Apr 201712 Sep 2017
The drive-in theater was one of the iconic crazes of the 1950s. While the first drive-in was actually in Camden, New Jersey in 1933, the popularity of the drive-in didn’t…
Accidents & Incidents…

The Flood of 1938

26 Nov 201612 Sep 2017
In July 1938, the McHenry area had some of the worst floods in its history. A huge storm on June 30th brought torrential rains The storm saturated the area and caused area…
Construction…

The McHenry Coliseum?

26 Sep 201624 Oct 2016
  During the early part of the 20th century, McHenry was a booming tourist destination. People from Chicago and the surrounding areas would flock to McHenry to enjoy Pistakee Lake…

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