Uncategorized The Start of McHenry’s Zion Lutheran Church 28 Nov 202528 Nov 2025 During McHenry’s founding, several churches were started as the city soon after the area was settled. In fact, one of the first people to help settle McHenry was Reverend Joel…
Uncategorized Starl Cronley 23 Sep 202520 Sep 2025 In April 1913, a traveler walked into the McHenry Plaindealer with quite a story. His name was Starl Cronley, and he was on his way to New Mexico, he stopped…
Uncategorized The McHenry Restorium 2 Jan 20252 Jan 2025 In 1927, during McHenry’s days as a resort town, farmer and entrepreneur Myron Detrick proposed the idea of building a restorium in McHenry. Restoriums, sometimes referred to as sanitoriums, were…
Uncategorized The McHenry Centennial 10 Dec 20249 Dec 2024 The first European settlers started coming to McHenry County around 1834. By 1836 a hamlet along the Fox River was settled and named McHenry. Mayor Peter Doherty, set up an…
Community Buildings… The Construction of McHenry High School 16 Nov 202415 Nov 2024 By the late 1910s, it was apparent that McHenry needed a separate high school building. At that time, high school students went to Landmark School which held the city’s grade…
Uncategorized McHenry Gets The Telephone! 29 May 202428 May 2024 The invention of the telephone transformed the world for our ancestors. One could hear the voices of people who were miles away but were now reachable by using this wondrous device. Most…
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