Timeline

A timeline of all events in the history of Mount Absalom that have dates or approximate dates. **Please be warned that this contains unmarked spoilers.**

## 1700s

**1796**

* Mount Absalom is founded by Reverend Silas Lodge

* Fenwood House is built by the Lyle family

## 1800s

**1815**

* First Celery Festival in Mount Absalom

**Around 1820**

* The building under the observatory is covered by a man-made hill
* First mention of Chapel Hill in state and local records

**1840**

* Theodoric Standish, presumably an ancestor of Rusty Standish, is born

**1853**

* Fenwood House is bought by the husband of a “seamstress”, later rumoured be a spy for the Union army

**1858**

* Jacob Warren is born

**1863**

* Fenwood House possibly used as a Union military hospital
* Theodoric Standish dies

**1873**

* First Mount Absalom vs Julian Hayride Race

**1874**

* Theodoric Warren, presumably an ancestor of Chester Warren and member of one of the town’s founding families, is born

**1876**

* Josephine Pratt is born

**Estimated between 1880-1884**

* Norah Tendulkar is born in Liverpool, England

**1889**

* Josephine Pratt dies

**1892**

* Lina Lyle dies of tuberculosis

**1896**

* Eight people die of tuberculosis in Fenwood House
* A large portion of the town, including Fenwood House, burns down
* Reverend Silas Lodge is inaccurately reported dead

**1899**

* Fenwood House is rebuilt by Eliza Fenwood, presumably renamed
* Fenwood House begins paying “exemption fee” for Ohio's brothel law

## 1900s

**November 1900**

* First meeting of The Mount Absalom Suffragette Society, hosted by Eliza Fenwood

**1908-1912**

* Cornelius “Corny” Deerfield is named Indiana Feed and Seed Salesman of the year

**1909**

* The observatory’s telescope is designed and by Norah Tendulkar

**1911**

* Norah Tendulkar dies
* The official recorded date of telescope’s design

**1913**

* Lightning strikes the observatory and starts a fire, according to Hazel Gibbons

**Estimated 1917 - 1919**

* Mount Absalom vs Julian Hayride Race suspended due to World War I

**1917**

* Theodoric Warren dies

**1924**

* Rain floods Mount Absalom Graveyard; when the bodies are returned there are twenty-three extra
* The flood rains also damages parts of the library

**1927**

**1928**

* Tim Anderson is born in Burlington, Ohio

**1935**

* Deidre Abernathy, notorious serial poisoner, stays briefly at Fenwood House

**1937**

* The “Chill of ’37”
* Frank “Giddy” Gideon stays at Fenwood House
* Theodore Wesley is born

**Est 1942 - 1945**

* Mount Absalom vs Julian Hayride Race suspended due to World War II
* Houses are built along Oak Street

**1954, Late Spring**

* Theodore Wesley dies

**1956**

* Dorothy Harper is born

**Estimated 1960s**

* A great number of birds are shot in the woods around Mount Absalom

**1970s**

* A fast food restaurant called The Hamboree exists in Mount Absalom

**Summer 1971**

* Tim Anderson arrives in Mount Absalom

**1972**

* Rusty Standish produces the folk album “Memories on the Road” in Mount Absalom, possibly kisses Dorothy Harper

**1973**

* Dr. Conrad Cartwright stays briefly at Fenwood House

**1978**

* Tim Anderson dies, is later seen back at Fenwood House
* Great Blizzard of '78. Surrounding parts of Ohio and Michigan receive very heavy snowfall in the range of 12 to 50 inches, but Mount Absalom only gets 4 inches

**Between 1977- 1983**

* Chester Warren is born

**1984**

* Lily Harper is born

**1989**

* The Delphic Order attempts to force a sale of Fenwood House through Eminent Domain

**1993**

* Land where Hunter’s Diner will later appear is vacant

**1996**

* Grant Fenwood dies
* Tim Anderson is no longer seen around town
* Fire in the burning woods
* The last of the houses in Oak Street burn down
* Chester Warren is trapped in a storm cellar for almost two days during the fire, suffers severe dehydration
* The Delphic Order try and fail to force a sale of Fenwood House through Eminent Domain
* Dot Harper and Dale Harper separate
* Dorothy Harper takes over Fenwood House
* The Mount Absalom Library is infested with squirrels

**1997**

* The Delphic Order attempts to force a sale of Fenwood House through Eminent Domain

## 2000s

**2002**

* Julian is disqualified from the Mount Absalom vs Julian Hayride Race because their trailer was empty

Estimated 2004-2006

* Lily Harper stops visiting Mount Absalom

**2010**

* The Delphic Order attempts to force a sale of Fenwood House through Eminent Domain, fail again
* Mount Absalom is disqualified from the Hayride Race because of an "honest miscommunication" about the starting line

**2016**

* Wes begins working at Fenwood House

**April 15th, 2018**

* Abbie Douglas arrives in Mount Absalom

**Late June, 2018**

* Hunter’s Diner appears

**Summer, 2018**

* Dorothy Harper injures her leg
* Lily Harper arrives in Mount Absalom
* The Delphic Order throws a History Pageant and Meat Raffle for the first time in around a decade
* Rudy Peltham arrives in Mount Absalom
* A door appears in the basement of Fenwood House
* The 203rd Celery Festival in Mount Absalom
* Two people found dead in The Burning Woods, killed by Silas
* Mount Absalom wins the Hayride Race against Julian

**Halloween, 2018**

* A door appears in the basement of Fenwood House

**November, 2018**

* Abbie Douglas is briefly employed at Hunter’s Diner
* Hunter’s Diner is closed down for health code violations
* Rudy Peltham is injured in the Observatory
* The floor of the observatory basement is broken through, Lily Harper begins but doesn't finish descending down, Abbie hurts their foot
* Wes vanishes
* Silas Lodge makes an appearance at the Fenwood Thanksgiving dinner

**December, 2018**

* Abbie Douglas descends down into Chapel Hill
* Rudy begins his initiation into The Delphic Order
* Christmas at Fenwood House. Dot Harper has a sundowning episode

**March 2019**

* Abbie investigates the closed Hunter's Diner
* Wes returns to Fenwood House
* A pack of twelve wolves appear in Mount Absolom. Silas Lodge lives in the town.