1922 - The town is split in half, and the feud gets ridiculous

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Entry posted by Jillybean86 · April 8, 2009

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Mt. Rose and Mt. Grace, California 1922

Eden's Prairie is no more. After the great schism between the brothers, the town was divided along the already existing physical, mental, and ideological border: the Walsh River.

A non-idealogical bridge over the Walsh River

The existing town on the north side of the river was now called Mount Rose, California - named after the mountain to the north of the town that was recently renamed after Kenneth and Theresa's newborn daughter Rose Miller.

Mount Rose

Although Mt. Rose was growing rapidly in a few areas, it was still mainly comprised of the shoddy and combustable frontier buildings that had been around since the founding of Eden's Prairie.

Imagine lots of old timey cars on the streets, because they aren't on the STEX

The town on the south side of the river was renamed Mount Grace, which very similarly to Mount Rose, was named after the mountain to the south of the town that was recently renamed after Michael and Bridget's newborn daughter Grace Miller.

Mount Grace

Since Mount Grace hadn't actually become very large by the time of the brick building mandate, the town had very few old buildings to replace, and was able to modernize quickly. Here is the same intersection just a few years apart.

Old intersection

New intersection

Inter-city feud escalates

In a prime example of the feuding between towns, the first car retailer was on the south side in Mount Grace, but the first gas station was a Texaco on the north side in Mount Rose.

A gas station with no customers

But because of the feud, north siders couldn't buy cars from the south side, and south siders couldn't use the gas station on the north side.

The dispute was eventually solved by the brother mayors in a game of "rock-paper-scissors", followed by a game of "loud argument", followed by a game of "punch-each-other-in-the-face".

Yeah, it was going to be a long decade....