By Way of Introduction...

The town of New Havenbrookshire is quite remarkable. Having been originally settled by Captain Ezra Keeley shortly after Jamestown, it faired little better. Most of the original inhabitants left, but the Keeleys remained behind and struggled with the land. When Puritan settlers arrived several years later, they joined in the effort and continued to expand the town under the direction of Josiah Keeley, Ezra’s son. Captain Ezra planned the city as a great round wheel, with the church being in the center and two major highways running north to south and east to west. This highway is very well kept and is a source of pride to the town, known to locals as Ezra’s Cross.

If you travel to the end of North Cross, there is a rather lonely and steep hill known as Keeley’s Climb. It is on this wooded hill that Mother Keeley, great granddaughter of Ezra Keeley still lives. As the eldest woman in New Havenbrookshire she is the head of the Womens Committee, but as she rarely leaves her home, she has little to do with the goings on in town.

East Cross runs straight to a covered bridge, and nothing else of consequence. One must ride 2 days through dense forest to reach the next closest town of importance* (see notes on Yorkington Park for clarification).

South Cross will lead you passed a flat, fertile patch that is now the home to the Petersen’s Orchard. Slightly passed the Petersen’s is the Governors home. Governor Davis is a well liked man of great means. Descended quite distantly from French royalty, his family married into a family of lower British nobility. Governor Davis was quite glad at the chance to leave England, and his somewhat dysfunctional family. Gov. Davis is described as being overly fond of butter.

Along West Cross, we find the modest farms of the area. Stout and resilient families, the majority of which are Irish immigrants that settled fairly recently. The town is leery of these new comers, especially since they are not of their faith. The Irish immigrants have won some influential advocates in town due to their hard work and good nature.

Another point of interest near town: Crescent Lake. It lies west, slightly north. The run off is used by the farms in their fields. A small river, or large stream travels some miles where it stops and the land becomes quite marshy. Around this area, three families have established what they call a town, and what everyone in New Havenbrookshire calls a disgrace.

Yorkington Park is the result of severe inbreeding and laziness. Samuel York, James Washington, and Jacques St. Thomas were part of the second wave of colonists in New Havenbrookshire, but did not care for the Keeleys, and indeed the Keeleys did not care for them. The result was that these men took their families and set out on their own, however due to their own infighting and lack of knowledge, they did not get very far, 13 miles to be precise. Occasionally the Yorkingtons will wander into town causing a scene in an attempt to show they are just as good as those snobbish New Havenbrookshire-ites.