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This is a book of photographs of Silos, Barns, and other farm related buildings, equipment, and activities in McHenry County, Illinois. I am creating it as an education tool for the many new residents to McHenry County who do not fully comprehend how important farming and related activities were to the growth and economy of McHenry County. It includes Silos, Barns, Other Buildings, Cows and how they are related to these buildings, Farm Equiipment, and views of McHenry County farm land. It shows the condition of both Silos and Barns from beautifully maintained and/or converted into practically new conditon, all the way to completely deteriorated Barns, collapsed at the foot of the adjacent Silo. It shows how food for cows, both hay and silage, is produced, stored, and then used to feed them. It shows both very old farm equipment to the most modern, expensive equipment. It shows how some Barns have been repurposed for use on golf courses, offices, landscape business, storage, and even one home. It shows farm animals.
McHenry County, Illinois, is a picture-perfect farming community in the Heartland of Midwestern America. For nearly two centuries, a portion of the nation's food supply has come from this fertile land near the Fox River, and it has played a key role in the history of Chicago and the United States. Through the medium of historic photographs, this book captures the evolution of the people of McHenry County, from the mid-1800s to the second half of the twentieth century. These pages bring to life the people, events, communities, and industries that helped shape and transform McHenry County. With more than 200 vintage images, culled from three collections-the McHenry County Historical Society, the Crystal Lake Historical Society, the James Keefe Collection, and the personal collection of Don Peasley-McHenry County, Illinois, portrays life against a backdrop of international wars, national social struggles, and technological advances in an expanding world.
Farmers from the East found the broad and fertile prairies of McHenry County offered the perfect soil and climate for growing corn, wheat, oats, barley, and rye. This led the way for a flourishing dairy industry that eventually supplied milk to the city of Chicago. The first settlements appeared in 1835 in towns such as Crystal Lake, Woodstock, Harvard, and Cary. Families such as the Walkups, the Crandalls, the Beardsleys, the Stickneys, and the Terwilligers travelled by oxcart and rode on horseback from distant states. As word of the lush countryside spread, other farmers came from England, Ireland, and Germany to plow the fertile fields of the nations heartland.
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Excerpt from History of McHenry County, Illinois: Together With Sketches of Its Cities, Villages and Towns, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History, Portraits of Prominent Persons, and Biographies of Representative Citizens Armstrong, John. Bigelow, f.j Burke, Arps, Geo. H Billings, W. G Burtch, N B, Austin, A. L. Binnie, H. Burton, David Austin, I. Bishop, Hon. Burton, S. L Avery, Col. William 583 Blake, N. E 4ri0 Butler, J. B Axtell, A. B akeslee, G Butterfle d, Merrick Axtell, E. Bliss, J. D B Ayer, E. G Boies, Israel B Aylsworth, John Boies, Wm. A. C Aylsworth. Mrs. A F boley.g C Babcock, J. B 755 Bordwell, D Carmack, Abram ackus, L. S.. Bourne, A. Carr, R. Badger, J. A 589 Bower, Elijah 896 Chandler, Slmeon. Baker, Henry 454 Brainard, Gilbert Chase, E. T aldwin, Sebrean 677 Brannen, Chase, M. M allard, J. H. 644 Brewer, J. C 372 chllbo'fl, d.'w arbcr, Lester 5-36 Brigham E. Chilson, arnes, C. P 272 Brink. John 847 Church, E. L arrows, Dexter. Broadley, Henry 421 Church. Col. L. S.. Barth, Brotzman, John Clark, J. W Bassett, Rev. J. E Brown, A. L 896 Clark, Samuel aum artner, Rev. J. Brown, B. S 461 Clark, M. D., Samuel Brown, C. Clark, s. E eck, Robert Brown, H. B 646 Clawson, G. T Beck. R. J Brown, H. T 277 claysou, g. H Beckley, E Brown, Clemens. Chester. Beckley, G. L 843 Brown. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.