Accidents & Incidents… 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.…
Businesses… The Telephone Girls’ Strike of 1945 18 Oct 201728 Nov 2017 In November of 1945, the people of McHenry County saw something they hadn’t seen before: people picketing in the streets. On November 15, 1945, the Illinois Telephone Traffic Union voted…
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…
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…
Uncategorized The McHenry Pickle Factory 30 Jun 2017 Through most of its existence, McHenry County has been an area focussed on agriculture. In the late part of the 19th century, pickle factories became something of a fad in…
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…
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