WOODSTOCK – An unusual finding at the bottom of a drawer at the McHenry
County Division of Transportation led to the discovery of more than 300 old
documents that laid the foundation for much of the county road system we
know today.

The “Harmony linen,” as employees have come to call it, is a document typed
and drawn on a 28-by-19-inch wax-preserved Irish linen that settled a land
dispute filed by a property owner along Harmony Road, which stretches from
Huntley west to the Boone County line. But to Project Design Engineer
Ernest Varga, who stumbled across it, the linen represented a mystery to be
solved. No one had seen anything like it before – it was dated 1939, and
referenced state road laws dating back to 1847, or just 11 years after the
county’s founding.

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