CJ Nicaumenee

After a long journey, I was finally able to finish the map. Of course, there's still room for improvement here and there, there is also a need for more decoration; that all may come later. At the moment, I'm just lucky that I could recreate my ideas - at least to a large extent

Today, I want to present to you the finished city and the remaining districts that can be found on the map. Please remember that the city continues even after the map stops, so some districts are only shown partly At end, you will find more overview images!

The following satellite shot shows the districts that are (partly) located on the map, it also highlights Nicaumenee's system of highways:

Highway I-43 connects Nicaumenee with Milwaukee in southern and Green Bay in northern Wisconsin. This highway more or less follows the shoreline of Lake Michigan before it turns into north-western direction to reach Green Bay. To shorten the travel time, auxiliary highway I-243 was built.
Furthermore, I-541 connects Nicaumenee with Appleton and the other Fox Cities. I-143 leads towards Fond du Lac (via Chilton & New Holstein), ultimately connecting with US-151, which further leads to Madison.

Let me introduce you to two of the remaining districts - Lawndale and Grovetown Yards.

Lawndale was a prosperous independent municipality before it was annexed by Nicaumenee in the early 20th century. At the time it was well-known for its Irish blue-collar workers. The town's factories produced early versions of new things like smoke detectors, which were heavily needed. A sign of the accumulated wealth can be found in the interior of St. Andrews Cathedral (lower right in the following image):

After the town was annexed, Nicaumenee's city council planned to add two large parks in order to offer more greenery for its smog plagued citizens - Lawndale Commons and Lawndale Heights Park. After the First World War, a small memorial arch was added to the scenery in Lawndale Heights Park to commemorate the fallen sons. After WWII, a local initiative successfully lobbied for the erection of memorial colonnades. This project gained national attention and support via donations, and today, it is one of the largest war memorials throughout the nation. In the early 1990s, further features were added, for example some small botanical garden hosting desert plants.





Grovetown Yards was named for the Grovetown Shipyards that were also built at the beginning of the 1930s at the mouth of Nicaumenee River. Nonetheless, the area had been populated already decades before. During WWII, the shipyards produced a significant number of submarine chasers. After the war, the production focused on freighters, but after the steel crisis, only two shipbuilding companies remained, with one focusing on ferries and smaller yachts and boats. The area is also infamous for its unsuccessful social housing projects of the early 1980s.


(Note: My thought was that the coal harbour is located in Grovetown Yards as well, but outside of the map)


View on the shipyard with the power plant in front (located in Barren Hill):


Now finally, some more overviews:

If you follow the railways, you will see recognize the Nicaumenee Belt Railway encircling some of the suburbian districts:



Some closer views:

The marshalling yard (it's not built in a 45° angle, so I could not place any cars there):



The modern car assembly plant producing several hundred minivans a day:


And a better view of the large interstate interchange


I hope you enjoyed it