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Location of McHenry County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in McHenry County, Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in McHenry County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
The Count's House is a historic Greek Revival home in McHenry, Illinois. It is one of McHenry's oldest and most notable landmarks, as well as one of the finest preserved examples of Greek Revival architecture in McHenry County. It is the only building in the city of McHenry listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
McHenry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 Census, it had a population of 310,229, [2] making it the sixth-most populous county in Illinois. Its county seat is Woodstock. [3] McHenry County is one of the five Illinois collar counties in the Chicago metropolitan area.
Harvard is a city located in McHenry County, Illinois. The population was 9,469 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] The city is 63 miles from the Chicago Loop and it is the last stop on the Union Pacific Northwest Line .
The area that came to be known as Johnsburg was first settled in 1841, five years after the founding of McHenry County, by immigrant families escaping religious persecution and oppressive social conditions in the Eifel region of Germany, predominantly the Mayen-Koblenz." (The congregation is known today as St. John the Baptist.)
The wetlands have helped to maintain water quality. The Piscasaw Creek watershed, including its tributaries, drains over 120 square miles (310 km 2) of land, making it the fourth largest tributary of the Kishwaukee River. [3] In 2008 the Illinois Natural History Survey examined Piscasaw Creek at two different sites in McHenry County's Beck's Woods.
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McHenry Dam State Park was founded in 1939 with the purchase of 15 acres (6.1 ha) of land on the east bank of the river. Property on the west bank of the river was donated to the state Division of Water Resources in the early 1960s. In 1971, the state began to acquire land surrounding Lake Defiance, then constructed park facilities in 1975.