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Many have heard that Cyrus McCormick had a connection to Plano. Some websites mistakenly report that McCormick invented the Plano harvester, or that the reaper he patented was manufactured in Plano. The McCormick name is famous. We learned about the McCormick reaper in school because it was a significant advance in grain harvesting. But hisContinue reading “His Reaper was not Our Harvester”