Crecheville

**Crecheville** is a suburb located to the northwest of Meridian.

## History

Crecheville was formerly the site of a gold mine on 1863, which accelerated the growth of nearby Mockingston. Its founding name was "Hekaton", which lives on in a diner.

It was rebuilt as a suburb, but then it was populated by nerds, pop culture buffs, and neopagans, giving it the name "Clicheville". They fled from Meridian in 1994 due to escalating fights between Christian fundamentalists and atheist extremists, until both groups had to be expelled for their violence.

In May 12, 2006, Mayor Radamant accepted a petition by many of the residents to rename the town and many of its locations after astronomical bodies, after they noticed dozens of coincidental names.

## List of locations

* Solfield Solar Plant
* Mercurion Post Office and Mart
	+ Functions as both a post office and a marketplace.
* Venus Spa
	+ Themiscyra Fields
	+ Helen Dilion works there as a spa worker.
* Terra Garden
* Gospel Beacon Church
* Luna Observatory
	+ The local Astronomers' Club works there.
* Mars Camp
	+ A boot camp for athletes and US Army soldiers.
* Sunset Hof
	+ An Asatruar temple at the western side of the town.
* Phobos Arcade
	+ Renamed from "Mars Arcade" to avoid conflict.
* Apollon Stadium
	+ This is the stadium where sports events were held.
	+ Some sports contests were also held there between local teams.
* Ceres Fields
	+ A large cornfield.
* Hecaton Elementary and Secondary
* Hygeia Street
	+ Asclepius Hospital is located along that street.
* Hecaton!
	+ A diner located along Hygeia Street, address number 100. Named after someone's cry when he discovered a large lump of gold, which became Crecheville's earliest name.
* Asphodel Park
	+ Named for its dull architecture. Also known for being a place of worship for local Asatruar and Hellenists on certain days of the year.
* Astraea Hall
	+ Named after both the Greek goddess of stars and justice and a deceitful butterfly princess.
	+ A venue for entertainment events, such as concerts and carnivals.
	+ It has its own pipe organs for tourists.
* Hephaestus' Smith
* Grace Assembly
	+ The town church, and the second oldest building in all of Crecheville. It is also a tourist attraction for its beautiful architecture and its choir and pipe organ.
	+ It is supported and revitalised by scores of Christians and art students who were also driven out by fundamentalists in Meridian.
* Minerva University
	+ Venue for higher education in Crecheville
* Hestia Pottery
* Zeus Hall (formerly Zephyr Hall)
	+ This is where the southern police station is located.
* Atropos Avenue
	+ This is where the northern police station is located, at Atropos Avenue 5.
* Victoria Avenue
	+ The site of a hotel, an Asatruar temple, an artist's club, a Hellenist temple, and a bookstore.
	+ The Victoria Bay (a library and bookstore) is located at the northern end of the avenue, and it was a very large building. It was also the very bookstore that attracted the nerds and neopagans who made the town famous, after they were pressured by fundamentalists to leave Meridian, who in turn had to leave as they were vandalising the town.
	+ The hotel is known as "12 Victoria". When Victoria *Hughes* was a girl, her father used to send her there to celebrate her birthday as a joke about her name.
	+ The Asatruar temple between the hotel and the artist's club is fittingly known as the Sigrid Hof, and the Hellenist temple to the north is known as Niké's Hall ("NEE-kay").
* Sunrise Hof
	+ An Asatruar temple at the eastern side of the town.
* Hall of the Twelve
	+ A Hellenist temple dedicated to the worship of the Greek gods.
* Janus Lanes
	+ A bowling alley.
* Jupiter Corp. HQ
	+ A powerful company that provides many services, from furniture to vehicles and energy drinks.
* Saturn Drive-Thru
	+ This is where
* Cronos Antiques
	+ Joked as a "portal to another world" in an April Fool's prank that went horribly wrong.
* Calliope Cinema
	+ The town's only cinema.
* Ouranos Welding
* Caelus Fans
* Neptune Water Park
* Awakening Community Church
* Pluto and Charon Mines
	+ The final remnant of Crecheville's mines.
* Erisian
	+ A nightclub frequented by punks and bikers.
* Lake Chellas Elementary and Secondary
* Lake Sedant (formerly Lake Chellasburg, Lake Sedna)
* St. Isidore Church
	+ The town's only Catholic church. St. Isidore was chosen because most of its residents are considered to be "nerds".
* Galaxy Lanes
	+ A golfing course located at the western side of the town.

## Notable people

* Victoria Leewards
* Jupiter Legatto
* Cornfield Creman
* Astyanax Duplefont
* Eris Wyldchyld

## Trivia

* Crecheville's streets and locations were named after astronomical bodies within the Solar System.
* Nearby people viewed the Crechevillians as "our friendly neighbourhood pagans", "Nerdytown", and "not your average small town". In fact, the town has a higher proportion of pagans than the rest of the district.
	+ Reception to this condition was mixed. Some people were afraid that the Crechevillians would sacrifice them next; others condemned it as a "nerd hive" or "a town bound to hell"; but still others gladly went there to study about European history.
	+ It also attracts tourists from faraway India and Europe, mostly Hindus and neopagans who come here to observe and take part in worshipping the locals' respective gods.
* The author thought of some of these names on 2015.

## See also

* Gotaland, another idealised pagan community from the future