Cramburg, Montana

Cramburg Township (also known as just Cramburg) is a fictional town located in Cascade County, Montana, nestled in the heart of the Little Bell Mountains on Route 89 within Lewis and Clark National Forest. Cramburg was roughly 50 miles southeast of Great Falls.
==History==
The valley that would one day become the town of Cramburg had existed on unoccupied Blackfoot land for centuries before first being settled in September of 1880. The town's formation followed in the wake of a mining boom following the discovery of silver in the nearby mountains, which would later prove to be rich in gold, zinc, quartz, amythest, and Precambrian deposits. Among many of the initial settlers were immigrants, and Civil War veterans who had felt they'd been abandoned after their service to the Union and fled west, along with wikipedia:Freedmen migrating from the south. Nevertheless, the town upkept firearm handling and training in the case of a second war and an anti-Confederacy stance persisted for the rest of the century.
By the end of the decade, the town would become home to a stop of the United States Postal Service and Montana Central Railway, increasing the population and allowing for the building of a large-scale smelting plant, which created more jobs despite the demanding labor. Cramburg was impacted by the Panic of 1893, which wiped out the area's mining economy, but the town nevertheless persevered, largely due to the saw mill and availability of lumber in the region.
By 1920, the town had a population of 840, benefiting in part from the first Great Migration and became home to a wave of unionization, leading to a general strike across all industry. When the then-mayor attempted to push back against the union workers by hiring former Pinkertons from out of town to threaten and physically intimidate union members, he was forcibly vacated from the role of mayor and pushed out of town. The Cramburg Township Union Hall was later erected in 1956 on the site of the original union hall to celebrate the success of the workers in the county.
By the early twenty-first century, the racial makeup of the town was 93.2% White, 3.4% African American, 0.6% Native American, 1.1% Asian, 0.8% from other races, and 0.9% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3.2% of the population. The town leaned Republican with a 84.9% majority, but nevertheless voted for Democrats twice since Lyndon B. Johnson's landslide victory in 1964, with Humphrey winning the bid in 1968 and Obama in 2008.
In Apocalypse, Cramburg was one of the first locales to be hit by infection shortly after midnight (approx. 12:03:11 MDT) on September 13th, 2010 as several apparent lightning strikes struck the ground both within and outside town limits, from which roughly a half-dozen nephilim emerged, many of which proceeded to run rampant through the center of town causing mass panic and quickly eliminating the undermanned and underprepared police force as well as slaughtering and reanimating a sizeable portion of the town's population. Of those living in Cramburg Township at the time, only Ajay Siddiqui, Derek Bradley, Joseph Stieker, Meraj Siddiqui (D-913), Rachel Trau, Vishal Siddiqui (D-913), Wilfred Cunningham are known to have survived the siege.Apocalypse, Chapter One: "The Fall of Cramburg Township"
==Notable Locations==
* Campbell Residence
* Calvin's Tavern (71 Union Street)
* John Robert Horner High School (mentioned)
* Cramburg Township Union Hall (77 Union Street)
* Cramburg Township Police Department (12 Pioneer Way)
==Notable Residents==
* Derek Bradley †
* Lana Bradley †
* William Calvin †
* Jerome Campbell †
* Wilfred Cunningham †
* Paul Beckmann †
* Phillip Johnson †
* David Hammond †
* Sarah Hammond †
* Brendan Malveaux †
* Tyler Malveaux †
* Samantha Richards †
* Dalton Rivière †
* Ajay Siddiqui †
* Meraj Siddiqui †
* Vishal Siddiqui †
* Joseph Stieker
* Rachel Trau
* Stephanie White †
==Map==
==Further Notes==
* Cramburg is loosely based on the smaller, real world town of Neihart, Montana, which shares the same geographical location.
* In earlier drafts of Reawakening, Cramburg was to be situated in rural Illinois. 
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