Chapter 2
The Story of Englewood
Chapter 2
1793, Englewood is now an incorporated town. In just 10 years, it's population grew from about 150 to about 1,000.
In the center of Main Street, we see the Englewood catholic church which was built in 1788 and still remained the tallest building in town until the early 1800s. Around it we find small shops, markets, housing and more.
The town hall is located at the north end of Main St. looking over the entire town. It was built in 1786 and was designed by an Joseph Wallingburn, an English architect.
In April of 1794, there was an important meeting on the proposal to construct a lighthouse at the westernmost tip of Englewood. Due to often foggy weather, ships can sometimes have trouble navigating the water around Englewood.
A plan to construct a road from Englewwod to Rockport was also proposed that same year. Rockport was was a town a of about 1500 people, 170km south east from Englewood.
People gotta eat right? Farming was a big part of the economy in the late 1700s as it employed a large part of the population.
We can see in this image, farmers herding cattle. (Excuse the coffee stain, after the images of Englewood were found, little precaution was taken in order to preserve them.)
A typical Englewood country farm house.
That's all for now, we currently stand in the year 1785 in the story.
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