Harrison

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Harrison...

Some time ago, the government of Simnation decided to build a new railroad through the Salato river valley.


The engineers utilized Ramona's Isle at the midpoint of the bridge since they did not trust their engineering abilities enough to build a really loooonnng bridge.

Soon after, Colonel Byron Carlin IV obtained a charter from the goverment to establish a new town. He chose to build the town on the bluffs overlooking the Salato.



He and his close advisor, Montrell Worthington, designed the town to sit around a town common.


More to come very shortly!

--------- Notes ---------

Similar to my city journal, Memphis, TN, I use a ton of BATs especially the BSC farming lots. However, I removed most of the 1x1 farms because I like the farms with buildings better than the small ones. I don't use cheat mods, but I do have the bridge height mod, the query upgrade mod, parks with jobs, no one way arrows and the Prevent IR mod. The only 'cheat' I do is to go back to God Mode to put in trees to fill out the area instead of having barren land.

[Karma Fiend 30]

cool bridge man! lookin forward to seein some updates! good luck!

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Despite Colonel Carlin's pompous style of administration, the town grows very quickly due to fertile farm land in the area.



The sudden growth does lead to a few small problems early on. People begin to complain about freight traffic leading out toward the Salato Central depot north of town.



To end the endless complaints of the citizenry, Carlin designates streets in the center of town as off-limits to trucks. After this declaration, he is forced to listen to complaints of truckers who now have to take a more round about route to the depot.



Meanwhile, Carlin's wife, Elizabeth, pressures the colonel to build a fire station on the town common. After witnessing a flour mill go up in flames during her childhood, she has always been obsessed with fire safety. Most of the citizens of Harrison have no idea what the concept of fire safety is though. Probably this will lead to some unfortunate occurrence later on.



As the town grows, the town common becomes a natural meeting place for people. An intrepid businessman, Jim Burgiss, builds a pub on the corner by the common itself. Methodist minister, Rev. Albert Davis, tries to discourage people from freqenting the pub, but fails miserably and Burgiss becomes a prominent member of the community. Next door, a Wilson's Farm is built much to the delight of the fire fighters who like to stop in for cheap snack cakes and Cokes.

[Amryai200 2]

this is looking very promising, the city planning is excellent

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Pierre Dubois LeCitron and his wife Louisa built a large lemon farm on the eastern edge of Harrison.



Louisa quickly gets bored of sitting all day in her country home, so she nags Pierre to build her a lemon stand. They build it near the Nursery Supply to hit the thirsty farm worker market.



As his lemon farm booms, LeCitron turns to the cleaning product business building himself a factory near the rail line.



After only a few years, the town of Harrison from the hot air balloon of Colonel Carlin's father-in-law. Prominent even from this distance is the Methodist Church, Carlin's house near the river and the newly built passenger station.



----- Note -----

In case anyone is interested, the map is the Harrisburg map from mallowtheclouds pack of maps. I guess I wasn't too original in my name, huh.

[Kwakelaar 92]

Nice beginning for a CJ

[screamomatic 14]

That looks really cool, Your village looks great.

[nealos101 20]

I love that village - that's the type of village I want to live in... great views in all.  Keep it up, I'll go easy becuase your CJ has jsut started...

Nealos101.

[Konica07 2]

wow this is coming along real nice. I really like your farm lands! i can't wait to see what happens! great work so far!

[mentarman 14]

I like this place and really enjoy your writing. It really brings the place to life.

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Many things have been happening including the birth of three towns around Harrison. However, Colonel Carlin's father-in-law, Zebulon Banks, only likes taking pictures of Harrison. We'll have to wait for somone to build an airport to get some other pictures of the towns. In town, many things have been happening. The location near the Salato Central line proved to be a wise move by the Colonel. Most citizens tend to give more credit to Mr. Worthington, Carlin's advisor.

Pressure from growing residential areas made the first freight depot inadequate. The town council, which meets in the top floor of Burgiss' Pub, decided it was time to demolish the depot and construct a larger freight station further out.



A quick snap shot of the demolition



After the construction of the SC Railroad freight station, some industry started to appear nearby.



As the center of town grows more prosperous, Rick Edwards, owner of the Edwards Organic Food Stand, starts to feel pressure from other businessmen to move to allow more 'respectable' business to use the lot. Edwards is especially insulted by the campaigning of Washland owner, Big Jim McBrien. However, in the end Edwards concedes and moves out toward the main roads. Colonel Carlin, in a move of great nobility, decides as a concession to name the road after Edwards to ease the pain.



Here's the new location.



After Mr. Edwards leaves, the empty lot is bought by a new arrival, Dr. Seymour Feinstein who builds a small clinic on the site. Most citizens are happy to have modern medicine arriving in Harrison. Big Jim McBrien tries to raise a stink since he is a firm believer in castor oil as a cure for all ailments, but no one listens this time.



As the town grows, more families take up residence. To eliminate children running wild all day long, the town council upon the initiative of Ms. Fran Tyler builds the first school in Harrison.



With all these great developments, the citizens decide to award Colonel Carlin. One evening in Burgiss' Pub, local farmer Mike Davis points out how little Carlin actually does, but he is quickly hushed. The residents take up a collection and build a statue to Colonel Carlin on the Common.



After droves of people come out to see the unveiling, Mike Davis decides he is fed up with Harrison, sells his farm and takes the first train across the Salato vowing to build a town that is run with at least a degree of common sense and awareness.....

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Zebulon Banks forgot to send out his most recent view of the town from his balloon.

[Mexicanboy13r 12]

hmmm... I really like your Rail system looks very realistic. Also your sense of style? lol I don't know but it seems like it. Very interesting. Not so quiet for a nice bed room community. Great work

[lookinin 2]

Excellent looking rural community - great start!

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Mike Davis took the train south with a new Simnation Town Charter in his hand. he was let off at a small whistle stop after a conductor of the train promised this was the land he was allotted.


Coincidentally, Davis should have gone the next map over to build his town. Luckily, no one back in the capital ever bothered to notice.

On the back of a napkin, Davis sketches the basic plan for his town. Very soon, other disillusioned Harrison citizens as well as the usual squatters and drifters start to fill up his town.



Vowing to top Harrison in all aspect of city life, but most importantly the really noticeable ones, Davis builds a baseball diamond which he names after himself in the center of town and starts to scout and recruit the best baseball talent for many miles around. Stories abound of Davis riding trains for 18 days in a row to find the stars for his team. Some baseball fans in Harrison claim Davis repeatedly raids the sandlots of their town for good players. No one can prove these stories though.



While Davis is off obsessing about beating Harrison, the town starts to grow quite well since it is left to its own devices. A developer even builds a row of townhomes in the center of the city which at this point stick out just a bit.




The residents of town are especially proud to watch the building of a large church, St. Peter's on the edge of town. One night the newly laid out cemetary behind the church is suddenly filled with tombstones! No one can say how this happened, but they do comment quite often about how nice it looks.



Upon returning to his town from a lengthy scouting trip, Davis is amazed at how well his town has grown. Using town money, he builds himself a large estate on the edge of town.



Sent by his son-in-law to spy out Kinsella, Zebulon Banks took this snapshot of the new town.


-- Notes --

Thanks to BarbyW for help with the Sweet Lilanie farm problem. Also, my apologies for posting earlier in the 'wrong' forum.