Winchester/Reeds
Winchester/Reeds
Agriculture is the main line of work for the small town as the fields spread out miles upon the flat earth. If a citizen isn’t working in the fields, they are commuting to Reeds or Kaw City. Many of the downtown buildings are dated back to the late 1800’s, early 1900’s. The town has worked hard to preserve several of them, and have only lost a few to a wind storm and more popular, fire. The school shutdown in 1948 and students began to be shipped across to the Kaw City School District. With the increasing size of Deer Park/Cresent City Metroplex, many people started to put down the plow and head into town for a brighter future. Winchester holds on, but in a non-forgiving manor. There’s always been something about Vän Vatten towns and their refusal to die.
Further south on VV20 you’ll come to Reeds. Reeds is the bigger of the two grain towns. It looks bigger, the roads go to a three lane to deal with the traffic from Blackwater and Deer Park, and the rail line is nearly moving at 100% capacity, primarily due to rail traffic between Blackwater, Blackwater North Depot, Deer Park, and Reeds Depot along the Flatlands Express. The Flatlands also intersects with the Ciscal just north of town. This is the main rail line into the metroplex, making it a rather challenging and busy line. VV20 jets to the east into Deer Park and VV120 heads south from the main of Reeds into Blackwater.
Finally, it’s worth taking a stop of Reeds Recreational Park. This park is a newer addition to the community. With Blackwater creeping in from the south, Deer Park to the east, Reeds has the desire (and the money) to save their own identity and they believe that with the creation of this new park area it’ll create a ‘natural border’ between the area cities.
One day this farmland will be gone, with the growth of Vän Vatten it is inevitable, the question becomes this: with your fields gone, are you still the same person?
Winchester
Downtown
Residents vs Ciscal Orient
Small Industrial Sector
Ciscal and Winchester Intersection
Fields of Plenty
Reeds
Reeds Depot next to O'Dool Brewery
VV20 (bottom) and VV120 Intersection
Reeds Recreational Park...in the works...
Suburbs meet Green Acres
VV20 heading into the sprawl of Deer Park
Zoomed out view of the new park in Reeds
North Blackwater and North Blackwater Depot
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