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For you to understand, or to really believe in Echo's Hill, you would have to see it. Anyone could talk about the place or any other for hours or days, but who's to say whether the place actually exists. Then again, what proof is there that anything exists outside of what a person can see.
Echo's Hill is a small town in northern New Jersey. The sort of town you only know about if you live in the area. Supposedly the hill received its name through the deaths of old citizens. The hill at one point housed a coal mine, which was closed down after an unexplained series of incidents. Even the most absurd claims and rumors of the event have been forgotten over the years, but no one seems to mind the lack of a true town history. Some say that the echoing cries for help can still be heard at night at the top of the hill, but most people generally believe this to be a heaping load of horse crap. Despite the name of the town, most of it does not reside on Echo's Hill, it's within the neighboring valley, or on the other surrounding hills. The town hall, on the hill itself, was once the office for the planners of the mine, and Main Street which runs up the hill to the building has rusted train tracks along side it with the occasional graffiti covered coal hopper. Years of littering and the work of the weather have covered up much of the track, but everyone knows that it's there. Every few months there is a petition of some sort set about by a thoughtful citizen to have the ancient tracks removed as a safety precaution, given that the tracks eventually run across town and beside Dogwood Hill Elementary School on the south side of town. The petitions have always been put down however, on the rational that removing the tracks would cost money, and no one likes that. There's also usually mention of the fact that if you can't keep your nosy kids off the damn tracks you just need to use some stiffer discipline.
South is the direction by which everyone comes into the town. The only major highway runs along Dogwood Hill and that’s where the people come from. There are roads going over the other Hills; the one going east, past Indian Hills High School is Elm Street. It's said by some that for every town, for every city, there's and Elm Street, but it's generally only the big cities, when they have so many roads they run out of creative names for them. So this Elm Street seems almost out of place. Almost, but not quite. When Elm Street crosses Main in the center of the small valley it becomes Oak Drive, which redundantly enough leads West into a similarly small town called Oakland. There are no roads running over Echo's Hill itself, with the exception of Main Street, though it only goes up halfway. The thought of old mine shafts collapsing under the weight of construction vehicles is not one cherished by many roadway planners. Despite the alternatives, the vast majority of newcomers arrive from the South.
Echo's Hill is a small town in northern New Jersey. The sort of town you only know about if you live in the area. Supposedly the hill received its name through the deaths of old citizens. The hill at one point housed a coal mine, which was closed down after an unexplained series of incidents. Even the most absurd claims and rumors of the event have been forgotten over the years, but no one seems to mind the lack of a true town history. Some say that the echoing cries for help can still be heard at night at the top of the hill, but most people generally believe this to be a heaping load of horse crap. Despite the name of the town, most of it does not reside on Echo's Hill, it's within the neighboring valley, or on the other surrounding hills. The town hall, on the hill itself, was once the office for the planners of the mine, and Main Street which runs up the hill to the building has rusted train tracks along side it with the occasional graffiti covered coal hopper. Years of littering and the work of the weather have covered up much of the track, but everyone knows that it's there. Every few months there is a petition of some sort set about by a thoughtful citizen to have the ancient tracks removed as a safety precaution, given that the tracks eventually run across town and beside Dogwood Hill Elementary School on the south side of town. The petitions have always been put down however, on the rational that removing the tracks would cost money, and no one likes that. There's also usually mention of the fact that if you can't keep your nosy kids off the damn tracks you just need to use some stiffer discipline.
South is the direction by which everyone comes into the town. The only major highway runs along Dogwood Hill and that’s where the people come from. There are roads going over the other Hills; the one going east, past Indian Hills High School is Elm Street. It's said by some that for every town, for every city, there's and Elm Street, but it's generally only the big cities, when they have so many roads they run out of creative names for them. So this Elm Street seems almost out of place. Almost, but not quite. When Elm Street crosses Main in the center of the small valley it becomes Oak Drive, which redundantly enough leads West into a similarly small town called Oakland. There are no roads running over Echo's Hill itself, with the exception of Main Street, though it only goes up halfway. The thought of old mine shafts collapsing under the weight of construction vehicles is not one cherished by many roadway planners. Despite the alternatives, the vast majority of newcomers arrive from the South.