In 1854 there came the Fox Valley Railroad. A man named Ayers began buying up land along what he thought would be the route. he wanted to know where the two railroads would cross. When he found out, he really started buying land around what is today Harvard and is responsible for founding that town.
The Fox Valley Railroad was built to aid the farmers in McHenry County in moving their products to market: wheat, milk and cheese primarily. Soon beer and alcohol entered the equation as back then Chicago had 138 breweries in the 1850s to 1870s. The trains would take grain from McHenry County (and hops from Wisconsin) to be brewed.
A Give me a Beer and be Done With It. --DaCoot
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