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Update 111 - (Ouisconsin County) Exploring the Ouisconsin River

packersfan

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Ouisconsin County - Exploring the Ouisconsin River <DoW Update 111:02.10.15>

Welcome to a new phase for the District of Wenzel. We are moving to a different area of the district. This area dubbed Ouisconsin is about 300 miles northwest of Martin County.

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Now we go back before civilization reached the forests of the District of Wenzel. About 300 miles to the southeast, Martin Town has been establish at the mouth of Brittany River along the shores of Sapphire Lake. Surveyors were sent out along the various rivers flowing into and out of Sapphire Lake. One team led by Captain Samuel Hitchcock discovered an even larger river flowing into Sapphire Lake hundreds of miles north of Martin Town.

Hitchcock named the river Ouisconsin meaning the gathering of waters. The team made their way up the lazy river searching for the headwaters. As the trees changed color, the Hitchcock and his men landed on a a wooded peninsula just after discovering a tributary to Ouisconsin which Hitchcock labelled as Liberty River on his map.

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Captain Hitchcock, Lieutenant John Weston, Sergeant Robert Clefton, Courtnay Fisher, Elisha Moorhead, Timothy Baker, Oliver Putnam, and Venton Davis disembarked and began clearing the land to build some winter shelter. Captain Hitchcock and Lieutenant Weston explored further along the river while the other six men established a base of operations at Camp Liberty.

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Hitchcock's men built two small cabins to provide shelter from the winter cold. Hitchcock and Weston continued to survey the area while Venton Davis and Courtnay Fisher, the group's best hunters, provided fresh deer and rabbit meat.

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We are here.

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Welcome to Ouisconsin!

I hope to be able to do a little bit of historical stuff with the region, establishing various outposts, chronicling the settlements growing into an expansive metropolis. I could use a lot of help though with ways to make my region historical...how to have no cars, good lots to use, how to "power" in a time when things didn't have electric power. I hope SimCoug can help me out with some of these questions, and I hope I can do my vision justice.

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jacob814

Wow this is by far one of the best historical themed journals I know. Alot of your pictures are stunning. You did quite well.

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SimCoug

I've always wanted to do a nice 'old' map of my region, but my photoshop skills are minimal.  I'd love to know how you worked that out (at least the basics).  Looking forward to this.

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jacob814: Wow this is by far one of the best historical themed journals I know. Alot of your pictures are stunning. You did quite well.

Thanks. You really think this a historical journal? I mean I did a little at the beginning and now I will be trying a little more in-depth background to my new city...thanks.

Mymyjp: Excellent entry! Your mmp skills are wonderful!

Thanks. My mmp skills are okay. The next guy here has superb mmp skills.

SimCoug: I've always wanted to do a nice 'old' map of my region, but my photoshop skills are minimal. I'd love to know how you worked that out (at least the basics). Looking forward to this.

I think I'll be posting an updated map-making tutorial as I'm now using Illustrator to make my maps (allows for .svg files), however, I did use GIMP to add the old paper look to the map picture. The next few updates might be tutorial / technical updates detailing how to make maps or how the land is divided up and surveyed, since I'm still working out my plugins, something made slightly more difficult because I want to start in a historical period.

By the way, a big thanks to SimCoug for all his help so far directing me towards good 19th century plugins including a bunch of his own re-lots (many which are available here on STEX).

I'm working on Update 112 right now. It is the Chinese Lunar New Year or Spring Festival, so I will be going back to my girlfriend's hometown this week. I hope I have decent internet access, so I can post the update. I was going to try to get it up today before leaving, but I don't think it will be possible to get it just right before we need to go. Instead, I replied to your comments. Hopefully, Update 112 will be up tomorrow. Take care!

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