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Old Town Tales - The Founding of Old Town


Despite its name, Old Town isn't old at all...relatively speaking.  In terms of communities, Old Town is relatively recent.  Maybe it isn't as old as New York or Los Angeles or Sim City, but it's still quite young and--as it was originally intended to be--mostly undeveloped.  Old Town was created and so named because its founders, disgusted by the way technology and progress were destroying the concepts of society, decided to start their own community that would hold onto and defend the "old ways" of life.

Founding Old Town did not come easily.  In fact, all of Old Town is a single vast property originally purchased by a coalition of community members and "donated" to a leadership committee that oversaw and guided the growth of Old Town.  To purchase such a huge tract of land required immense sums of money.  However, thanks to the significant contributions of a few rich and poweful families (and a lot of smaller prosperous but less-well-off families), the purchase was made.

The greatest contributions came from five main families:  the Landgraabs, the Goths, the Silvers, the Golds, and the Rutherfords.  The Goths, who gave up nearly all of the fortune they brought with them from the Old Country to the new community, are usually credited with contributing the most financially, but it was the popular Silvers who provided the early leadership of Old Town, the mechanically-savvy Golds (actually only Mr. Gold, since he was the last of his family) who kept everything running, the charismatic Rutherfords who kept everyone's spirits up until Old Town could become self-sustaining, and the business-minded Landgraabs who effectively invested the coalition's funds to help Old Town prosper.  With the exception of the Landgraabs (who kept their mansion in Bluewater Village, the large property they had themselves owned and leased out and had then donated to Old Town), the other founding families now live in the largest mansions of Founders' Way.  The other families who made lesser contributions to the founding of the town can also be found on Founders' way, but in the smaller mansions.

As a community still developing, Old Town continues to experience some growing pains.  An influx of younger residents and an expansion in the originally families' sizes have required the development of more businesses and public places:  whereas before the families could live like landed gentry, with large properties to visit and have fun on, now--to spare older relatives the onslaught of loud voices and music--they needed to find other places to hang out at.  In addition, some progress and technology had to be allowed into their community--they had to keep up with the modern world, no matter how much they disliked some of its changes.  To that end, Old Town began with a few small places here and there in the center of town--the Old Town Public Library and Museum was one such place, as was Grand Gazebo Park.  In addition to a beach park and a small shopping complex, there were also a pet shop, a pet park, a coffee shop, and a fishing hole, as well as the small businesses operating in Bluewater Village.  The leadership committee also developed the Downtown District, to which the influx of technology and progress could be mostly contained.

Old Town continues to grow, and with its founders steadily aging, it's only a matter of time before some new services will need to be offered.  The leadership committee has already begun passing along their responsibilities to their heirs, and one of their last decisions is to build a community center and a senior living retirement complex next door to each other so those of them that decide to get away from the hustle-and-bustle of their family homes can live out their days in peace and comfort with others who share their sentiments.


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