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Cherished Memories Of Days When We Were All Together.

8 Nov 201719 May 2018
  While doing research for another blog post, I ran across the above memorial in the McHenry Plaindealer from March 1946. I became curious was to how Pvt. Pearson passed.…
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The McHenry Train Crash of 1908

22 Aug 20162 Oct 2016
On March 30, 1908 one of the worst train wrecks took place here in McHenry. Around 8:30 am a train loaded with 24 head of cattle and six calves were…

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