Category:History of the town and Duplex

Founding of the Town 1889-1890
The late 1800's was a time where the coal and Locomotive Industry began to start with a bang.

This was around the time that Hamilton Jenkins a landowner who wanted to build a railroad track that connected a soon to be built town a nearby shaft (which was located in the nearby mountains) mined up coal for profit.

Now is the next part, construction like everything in life it's easier said than done

Railroad construction 1891-1893
It took surprisingly 2 years to build and finish the railroad

Multiple factors rendered the construction of the railroad line

1)Disturbance of native tribes- The construction of the line disturbed a near by Native tribe which caused several brawls between the two parties

which is described in vivid detail in Hamilton Jenkins' auto biography titled "The Pain Of Railroads" "each day of august we were ambushed by those damn Indians, and not only that I had to deal with the previous mention of the constant moaning and crying of my workers" -quote from page 9 paragraph 2

Hamilton was known for his intelligence or lack there of, he was a victim of poisned water that he had consumed on the exportation of the land which as time passed slowly poisoned his brain and causing sudden fits of rage and of course dwindling brain cells

He traded way over half of the food and money to the Indians in exchange for them to move far away, somehow it worked but it took Hamilton a few weeks to realize the impact of what he did and it wasn't positive

2) Lack of money

Like any dumb and rash decision it will soon come back to bite the person in the rear end and this is no exception

Since he traded half of the food and money to the Indians it wasn't long before he ran out of food and money for his workers, meaning that way over half of them gave up and went on strike and some even refused to leave their tents meaning that Hamilton himself would have to make them work by force "It was dusk and little to no one had left their tents to start work I tried verbal threats, but clearly they had nothing else to lose, I mean what was I going to do, duct their pay. So then I got my whip out and started to whip a recently placed rail. Each time I tried to make the pop sound louder and louder to make them come out, they din't come out, in fact they laughed when I accidentally slapped it against my forehead. They laughed, so I decided to grab a rail spike and gently cut the fabric in the tent, while at the same time making sure not to stab my worker. But the fabric was so strong and I pressed harder and harder until it went through and punchered the back of the worker, he screamed as everyone else jumped out and watched as the worker bled to death. All I can say is they defiantly worked for free for now on." -exerpt from page 112 paragraph 9 3) The Workers, since Hamilton was to quote his quote of one of the workers from his book "a real pain in the a**." So out of spite some of the workers left for their real home forcing Hamilton to act even more like a tyrant and he even made his family work and he even went as far as to do the work himself. He only worked for 1 day before giving up.

Despite all of this agony somehow the railroad was finished

Construction of The Great Manor Of Hamilton Jenkins 1893-1895
Through out the months of being the station master and the overall controller of the Railroad, Jenkins had to live in a tent while a proper Mansion was constructed for him. Of course barley anyone worked for him and that included the people who drew blueprints for the mansion so the bright man done it himself.

The blueprint included a 3 story design, 13 bedrooms, 7 bathrooms, no kitchen and the house was planted right in the middle of the railroad track and of course the floor had the track exposed which caused him and any quest that he somehow got to subb their toe on the track.

The only problem that remain constant through out both builds for Hamilton was the construction workers. So in retaliation to their bullying Hamilton during the day slept on the tracks, it was very annoying until one day a locomotive accidentally nugged him which caused Hamilton to jump out of the tent and throw his world famous tantrums and he even went as far as to tear one of the buffers off.

All of this ended when his manor was finally completed in 1895.

Decline and death of Hamilton Jenkins 1908-1910
The railroad worked for 15 years until Hamilton died

As time went on his brain slowly got more and more poisoned because of the water, he commonly would disturb the workers as he would go into random fits of rage and would shout random gibberish on the top of his lungs before passing out. He drank a lot to the point where he was banned from the bar because he threw a beer glass at the bartender and almost caused a fire.

This went on until the fateful night that he was driving his private engine he rammed through his house that was previously mentioned to be built on top of the tack.

He died instantly

That was the end of Hamilton's rein of terror, and the beginning of the death of his own railway.

Since, Hamilton being the one who mainly funded the railroad and is now dead the railroad ran out of money and went bankrupt the next year.

Expansion of the town 1912
You may think that all of the workers went to their homes, but the town was their home and when the previously mentioned Indian trip moved back to their home land because buffaloes were scarce, the workers decided to work with the Indians and not against them. As a result the town grew larger, more buildings were made and the town that mainly had about 5 houses that housed 10 people each grew into an active community with a normal town would have.

The town was mainly used for a get away from the nearby city as a get away area.

Manor is rebuilt 1918-1919
The nearby city was also expanding and had a threat of coming into contact with the town and possibly forcing the people out. So someone form the third party bought the land where the manor was and rebuilt it into what is now the Duplex so that the city could not build in private land. It was originally used as a mid way point between the city and town. But as cars improved over time and wouldn't over heat as often the Duplex was rendered useless and went up for auction in the summer of 2000 after a heavy remodel.

You can guess who bought it.