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This park in a way is a knock-off of my earlier Dunderburg Spiral Railway Park. The feature ride is a variation, and the other wooden roller coaster, despite its name, is a variant of one supplied with the original game. The “Blue Nile” is a derivative of a dounloaded ride I found called something like “Raging Sebek”. The town described is completely fictitious, but the geography, history and economic descriptions are consistent with the western shore of Lake Champlain.

Port Duncan probably owed its original existence to its position on a major strategic spot on the Lake Champlain trade route and to the ample water power available from a tributary river dropping through the eastern Adirondacks. Noting its importance during the Revolution and War of 1812, the government started but never finished a fort guarding the north end of the town. After that latter war, iron was discovered in the hills, and with limestone quarries, ample stands of timber, etc. the town quickly grew prosperous around the mines and the mills, iron, paper, woolen, etc. that sprang up. Times were so good that about 1890, the town fathers emboldened and inspired by the plans for the Dunderburg Spiral Railroad far to the south, built one of their own, complete with the Moorish style Palace Hotel on the mountain top. For those not wishing to brave the heights, there was a smaller roller coaster on the lake shore, blessed proudly with the nickname, “The Hoosier Thunderbotl,” Amos Rusie, star pitcher for New York’s first world series champion (1894 - 9 years before the Yankees even existed!). But the financial crisis of that same decade began a series of mill and mine closings that would leave Port Duncan in a backwater. There attempts to stop the decline, as some of the empty mills were recycled by other industries for a while. For example after the role of radio in the rescue of passengers from the “Republic” and “Titanic” disasters, an electronics firm took over one building, but those were but temporary respites. When the last mill closed in 1972, and the Palace Hotel gave up the ghost later that same year, Port Duncan was left a mass of empty buildings, mill, factory, mine, hotel, fort, rusting railroad tracks and ostentatious but abandoned mill owners’ houses (including a recluse’s castle) high above the lake.
Fortunately, one of the town daughters became wealthy by inventing and marketing computer games, and returned to invest in her childhood home, recycling many of the buildings into an amusement park on and above the lake. Only your peeps will know if she will be successful in this endeavor.

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