1. The Palisades
The strip of land along the coast and the small island at the mouth of the Penobscot River is a quaint urban coastline with local boutique stores and tourist attractions. The beaches of the Palisades are mostly white sand, but sunbathers occasionally venture out to where the dark waves lap at the shore.
The two beating hearts of this particular neighborhood are that of the Boardwalk, a major tourist attraction along the coast, and Casino Street, a strip of hotels & casinos running through the heart of the Palisades. The rest of the neighborhood is a largely quiet middle class area dotted with clusters of townhouses and low rise apartment buildings constructed during the boom of the 1920s.
The Barrows
The Northern island made up of multiple neighborhoods.
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2. Lockham
The counterpart to Nor Locks' squalor, Lockham is where many of Nor Locks' employees live. It's an old neighborhood built with all the safety features to be desired circa 1940 with only very recently things being updated to a modern standard. Most of the homes here are either low rent apartments or on the higher end small town houses for the lower middle class families. The district's demographic is predominantly Latin, with the next largest populations split equally among Poles, African Americans, North African Muslim immigrants and various Middle Eastern nationalities being the most recent group to begin pouring in at record numbers.
Most of the Lockham plays host to working class people living paycheck to paycheck, usually employed in the heavy industrial jobs to be found over in Nor Locks or for the luckier ones, the shipyards. Still, things aren't all terrible as massive amounts of money are beginning to be poured into this neighborhood since the sudden relocation of a number of wealthy Middle Eastern and Jewish companies into the area.
3. Gravestone
The area around Gravestone is nice enough with the most apt description of its town homes and brownstone buildings being painfully average. Here are where the lower middle class of the Barrows live rather normal lives in this neighborhood. This was not always the case however as once during the 1920s, Gravestone was one of the up and coming neighborhoods full of burgeoning stock exchanges and the noveau rich. Sadly, boom turned to bust and after a brief stint as the poorest neighborhood in Dunhurst, Gravestone eventually settled into its current state as a fairly normal lower middle class neighborhood.
4. Miskatonic University
Along with the Yards, Miskatonic is a bit of an anomaly in the otherwise very working class area that is the Barrows. A wealthy bastion of mostly out of state or even out of country students, many come to receive an education from one of the top 10 universities in the country. Built in 1721 as a private education institution by the wealthy Dunn family, Miskatonic University for the longest time sat alone on the Isle of the Barrows.
Only with the large immigration boom of the 19th century did the island begin to be developed into an industrial and working class area. For centuries, Miskatonic University has remained a rather odd little island of the upper class on the Isle of the Barrows pumping out many world renowned names from its ivy league halls.
5. The Yards
Much like Miskatonic that lies adjacent, the Yards are a bit of an anomaly in the Barrows. The location is largely made up of students and a number of lower upper class families that have lived here for centuries. The neighborhood has developed a very distinctive flavor, influenced by the many forward thinking minds of a diverse cast of foreign students and the university. The area has always been at the forefront of culture and liberal thinking within the city being among the first places in the city to welcome any number of new beliefs and ideals.
6. Kellog
This is the location of the single poorest neighborhood in all of Dunhurst: the Projects of Dunhurst and a few surrounding communities that can only be called slightly better. When one thinks of crime riddled areas of Dunhurst, usually it is of Kellog; where the murder, robbery, drug addiction, and pretty much any bad statistic can be found at its highest in the city. Most avoid the neighborhood unless they either live there or have some dire business as it is the place one does not go lightly unless you want to get shot.
7. Briarville
Somewhat better off than its neighbor Kellog, Briarville was settled originally during the 1880s as a largely Scottish immigrant neighborhood where many had come to work the burgeoning industrial jobs of Dunhurst. Over time populations have shifted into a more hodge podge of working class groups, though the source of work still stays the same with most people working in industrial work or in the city's many shipyards. This has bred a very densely populated working class neighborhood that, while not an awful place to live in, still isn't most people's first choice given its somewhat dilapidated state.
8. Ripley
The Harlem of Dunhurst as it is known, Ripley has for a very long time served as the heart of the African American community of Dunhurst. This neighborhood is one of the oldest continually inhabited Black neighborhood in the city. The economic history of Ripley is a very diverse one starting out as a rather affluent Black neighborhood in the 1780s before shifting into a poor slum during the 1880s, and finally in more recent history being revitalized into a thriving middle class neighborhood. The neighborhood also boasts some of the most famous cultural sites that attract a fair few locals and tourists that has greatly helped spur on the local economy.
9. Nor Locks
The heart of Dunhurst's industrial manufacturing that has for so long spurred on the economy of this city. No one save the homeless live in Nor Locks as most of the neighborhood is taken up by massive warehouses and factory blocks. The ground here has been so saturated by a century and a half of heavy industry that nothing grows or lives here. Only within the past few years have local environmental industries actually had the political and economic capital to tackle the truly monumental task of cleaning up this place. Still, such concerns are largely unimportant to most that come here as Nor Locks serves as the lifeblood of most of the working class in Dunhurst, providing a constant source of steady work for any looking for it.
10. Ormwood
The unfortunate twin to , Ormwood was once right alongside that other neighborhood as a center for black cultural expression and affluence. Unlike its twin however, Ormwood never recovered from the racial segregation that emerged in the 19th century. It has remained a largely working class Black and more recently Latin neighborhood not as bad off as Kellog or Briarville but still not at the heights it once occupied. A few historical sites of interest dot the neighborhood, but even those are largely ignored by the larger community of Dunhurst for the cleaner and prettier Ripley next door.
11. Marlowe
Known solely for housing the oldest cemetery in all of Dunhurst, Marlowe is a somewhat dreary neighborhood. Lying at the lowest point of any neighborhood in Dunhurst, Marlowe is often the first place hit by the many fogs that drift in off the ocean. This gives the neighborhood's already old stonework, in stark contrast to the tightly packed tenements of the surrounding areas, a very eerie look that has sparked many stories of the place being haunted. Most who live here are retired pensioners since the neighborhood's youth usually leave to find better work or education in the surrounding neighborhoods.
12. Red Beach
Known mostly for the Dunhurst Power Plant that eternally sparks controversy with its flagrant disregard for environmental regulation, one could easily miss that Red Beach is in fact a place with people in it. An almost entirely working Latino neighborhood, Red Beach was once hoped to be a beach front tourist destination like the Palisades. Sadly, that dreame never came to fruition. Instead, the neighborhood is largely made up of the poor and working class, making a living at the power plant or feeding in the rampant crime problem within this neighborhood.
13. Chuck Ellis Island
The smallest of the four major islands that make up the city of Dunhurst, Chuck Ellis Island is a patchwork web of industrial blocks and low income neighborhoods. Unlike Nor Locks which has largely done away with people living in the neighborhood, Chuck Ellis crams people into as many places as it can to fuel the constant need for labor. Once upon a time, Chuck Ellis was known as a cultural hub a fact that can still occasionally be seen in the dilapidated theaters and abandoned galleries that dot the edges of the island. This all changed with the Great Depression that utterly killed the local cultural hubs that had sprung up on the island which lead to most of it being turned into industrial blocks.
Dunhurst Heights
The Middle island of the four major ones that make up Dunhurst.
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14. Edgewater Bay
The smaller and far older of the city's two ports, Edgewater Bay has over the years begun a slow change from thriving shipping hub to sleepy seaside neighborhood. There is still a decent enough maritime trade industry to be found here, but the glory days are long gone and further fading is inevitable as the last few ship yards close and move down to the proper harbor. The residential area of the neighborhood itself is a rather quaint middle class area, mostly made up of longstanding locals and very recently Polynesian immigrants that have begun to establish their own little community here.
15. Constantine
One of the most architecturally beautiful neighborhoods in the city, Constantine was built to look like an ancient Greek acropolis. It serves as the seat of local government. Here can be found the mayor's mansion, law courts, and city hall that services all of the governmental needs of Dunhurst. There is also a very brisk local street food industry feeding the legions of governmental workers and people coming and going on business for very low prices.
16. Felix Plaza
A beautiful cultural plaza district built much like its neighbor Constantine with a classical Greek feel to it. Here can be found quite a few high end local boutiques, famed restaurants, and beautiful squares where one can relax and look at some beautiful marble sculptures. There are even a few high end apartments to be found here though the price of them puts them far out of the means of most people.
17. Grand Station
One of the densest commercial districts to be found in all of Dunhurst, Grand Station is known mostly for its stores and being the home of grand subway station from which the district gets its name. Located here are some of the most popular high end commercial zones in the entirety of Dunhurst, servicing the needs of millions every single year. There is also a decent amount of corporate offices to be found on the higher floors of this area's high rises, where the bases of several major commercial chains can be found.
18. Inshirrma
A long standing Irish ethnic neighborhood, Inshirrma is well known as a center for Irish immigration and culture. In this neighborhood, one can find a very specific Irish cultural flavor with pubs and shops all made to feel as if someone is still back in Dublin. Once upon a time, Inshirrma was a famously poor neighborhood, housing tens of thousands of working class Irish immigrants. Over time though it has become a very nice middle class neighborhood with some of the most popular local pubs in all of Dunhurst.
19. Dawkins Park
The largest and oldest park in all of Dunhurst, Dawkins Park is a popular center for local cultural festivals. Here is where dozens of different festivals display their respective celebrations and rituals each month from the local cultural groups in Dunhurst. This has made Dawkins Park one of the most famous locations in the entire city with a great many locals and tourists frequenting the area. According to some locals, there can even be found wolves in the park. Though according to most official sources, that is simply an urban legend not to be taken seriously.
20. Stanton
Wide lanes and lush parks abound in this classy corner of town, characterized by tall brownstone buildings. Opulent bed-and-breakfasts sit alongside the sorts of businesses that open by appointment only, concealing all traces of commerce so as not to offend the sensibilities of the locals. Most of the people around here seem to be professionals in their late 30s and up, though a handful of younger people are also to be seen in the area.
21. Zion
A very quaint middle class area of Dunhurst that for the longest time was a majority Jewish neighborhood going back over a century. Here can be found the oldest and largest synagogue in the city and a great many popular Jewish businesses. Recently however, thanks to an immigration boom, the southern portion of the neighborhood has been developing into an area known as Little Mongolia. There can be found an all new cultural flavor sprouting from a tightly knit Mongolian immigrant community that is the second largest in the country.
22. St. Jude's
The heart of the local Catholic community of Dunhurst, this location contains the central cathedral of the Dunhurst Diocese. The neighborhood is largely made up of the lower upper class and upper middle class in the areas immediately surrounding the cathedral. As one radiates out, the wealth and opulence lessens into far more normal middle class neighborhoods.
Downtown
23. Ridgefield
This area is one of the two oldest neighborhoods in Dunhurst alongside its neighbor Ashton. Though far less artistic and fancy than Ashton, Ridgefield is home to quite a few of the oldest structures in all of Dunhurst with the original city hall and the Dunn Fort historical site. Most of the neighborhood's inhabitants are made up of the upper middle class of Dunhurst, descended mostly from the city's original French and Greek settlers.
24. Ashton
As one of the two oldest neighborhoods in Dunhurst alongside its neighbor Ridgefield, Ashton is the most famous in the city. Renowned for the sheer number of arts venues held within, Ashton contains the famous Dunhurst Museum of Art and the Dunhurst Art College amongst its countless art venues and galleries which cater to every form of artistic expression. The locale here is mostly made up of old rich families or a few noveau rich who can afford to live with the tremendous prices. They occupy some of the finest and most expensive manors in the city, surpassing even that of the Nobility Hills.
25. Red Morgan
Most famous for hosting the oldest and largest hospital in Dunhurst, St. Michael's Hospital, Red Morgan is a very old and some say haunted neighborhood. It's not all one hospital though with there being a vibrant local community made up mostly of middle class residents, melding together a hodge podge of local cultures. The most well known thing outside of the area's famous hospital is the fact that it plays host to a sizeable Brazilian immigrant community that has begun to influence the local flavor.
26. Drover's Park
Well known in the city as the single most diverse neighborhood to be found in the large and populous Dunhurst, Drover's Park is a riot of cultures and ethnicities growing and changing with each other. One can go across a single street and be surrounded by a whole new culture than what was previously encountered and so forth. The most famous, or rather infamous, attraction is that of the park that gives the neighborhood its name. To most people, it's simply a lovely place to walk your dog or to view the sea. But to the local Native American community, it is a sacred site that has been polluted by urban growth.
27. Six Hundred Guilford
Here is where the high rise skyscrapers are found that plays host to the city's financial district. Stock exchanges, corporate offices, and law offices dot this area in massive numbers, exceeded only by the likes of New York . The most famous among these location is the former Pentex Tower the tallest building in the city that for decades was home to the massive conglomerate. However, recently due to some sudden changes of fortune, Pentex has been utterly driven out of the city with the tower now being occupied by a number of companies seeking to make use of the space.
28. Ferryman
The Broadway of Dunhurst has the city's finest theaters lining its streets. Hundreds of plays and movies make their appearance in this neighborhood, raking in awards and acclaim from most who come to see it. To further compound the popularity of this neighborhood, the number of world class restaurants here are funded by the constant stream of wealthy theater goers and businessmen. This includes two 3-star Michelin restaurants. Less well known but still just as important is the marketing firms that make their home in the high rises that dot this neighborhood.
29. Chinatown
The oldest and most densely populated Asian community in Dunhurst was truly once home to an exclusively Chinese community which arrived during the early 20th century to find work. Over time however, it has grown to hold several other ethnic communities in a melting pot of Asian groups with Japanese, Vietnamese, and Filipino all being especially prevalent in the area. The neighborhood has grown past the once very working class neighborhood to being a middle class area that is considered quite an ideal area to live with even some upper class areas developing.
30. Calexico
This largely working class Latino community has recently begun to gentrify and ascend into the middle class though that journey isn't quite complete yet. In this neighborhood, there is a mix of locally owned businesses and newly sprouting up more chain locations. Despite its old reputation as one of the more dangerous ghettos of the city, thanks to recent investment, the area has become a very quiet place. While not exceedingly wealthy, Calexico is not a bad area to live in.
31. Little Lithuania
Perhaps the most unique of all of Dunhurst's ethnic communities is that of Little Lithuania. Here one can find the largest concentration of the Lithuanian diaspora in not only the US but the entire world. Originally, it settled in the 1800s as a largely normal local community during the 1940s with the large refugee surge from the recently conquered Lithuania. Then once again in the 1990s with the fall of the Soviet Union this area has become distinctly Lithuanian. The neighborhood contains the largest Romuva church outside of Lithuania and a very strong influence from Lithuania on the local culture and look.
32. Little Italy
While Dunhurst like any city plays host to many ethnic neighborhoods, Little Italy is the only one that can truly be called a homogenous neighborhood. The architecture, culture, and even to an extent the language is entirely Italian, almost. It is a largely middle and working class neighborhood, built as if it were a neighborhood in Rome or Tarento with a few smatterings of wealthy families that still adhere to the leading groups of the local Italian Mafia. Sadly, despite the best efforts of local law enforcement the Italian Mafia families that once dominated the whole city are still entrenched deep in this area, having survived far better than any other Mafia in the United States after the 1980s.
34. Fells Heights
A classier and more subdued cousin to Wear Street, Fells Heights is where most of the city's popular bars and lounges can be found. Though not quite so glitzy or glamorous as its more well known cousin, Fells Heights is still a very popular place to spend a night for those not wanting to deal with the drugs and the crowds. There are even a few gentlemen's clubs to be found for those of a more old school bent, wanting to sit down and have a cigar with old friends.
35. Hoyt & Cross
While Six Hundred Guilford is the heart of the stock trade and the local corporate offices, Hoyt & Cross is where the city's banking industries make its home. In this neighborhood, the branch offices and headquarters of dozens of major and minor banks all make their trade in high rise skyscrapers. There can even be found some small amount of high end residential apartments, mostly used by the upper crust of the local bankers here.
36. Three Corners
The largest, most well known, and utilized commercial district in all of Dunhurst, Three Corners is the place to go if you need pretty much anything. From the massive bazaar that can be found in the titular Three Corners Market to innumerable stores and restaurants, Three Corners has everything you might need. The only exception to the constant commercial bustle is a small and very old Indian community that has so far resisted the constant attempts of big business to buy them out and turn the area into more commercial zoning.
37. Hoestch Island
One of the smaller islands that cluster around the three main islands of Dunhurst, Hoestch is well known and well avoided due to being the home of the central sewage treatment plant and the pumps of Dunhurst. The island permeates with a constant miasma of sewage and is ventured only by the poor workers who have to come in and ensure that the sewers of Dunhurst keep on running.
38. Graves Island
Much like its sister island of Hoestch, Graves Island is well known and well avoided due to being the home of Dunhurst Maximum Security Prison. Access to the island is strictly controlled and only possible by boat so as to better increase security. The island boasts a 100% success rate with stopping prison escapes as supposedly in its long history, there has never once been a successful escape.
40. Diamond Street
Named for the thriving diamond trade that has lived here for two centuries now, Diamond Street is home to some of the oldest diamond trading companies in the entire world. This has led to dozens of major jewelers setting up their offices and stores here for anyone to come and peruse some of the highest quality jewelry to be found in the city. The inflow of big money items has also led to a growth in several high end apartment complexes for those wealthy enough to afford living in this very affluent area.
41. Iron Side
The home of the mid rise and high rise office work that lacks all of the glitz and the glam of the financial districts or Diamond Street. Here is where the droll and dreary office homes can be found. The number of companies range from paper manufacturing to land mine manufacturing. There can also be found a number of mid level apartment complexes, mostly servicing the local office workers. All in all, this is considered a very boring if safe place to live for a middle class office worker in Dunhurst.
42. Teletex Circus
Once simply another part of Iron Side, Teletex Circus in the last three decades has begun to turn into the Silicon Valley of Dunhurst. The area is dotted with newly refurbished offices in order to house the dozens of tech startups that seem to rise with alarming frequency. There are even branch offices of tech giants such as Apple and Microsoft, trying to take advantage of the access to major financial markets.
43. Paris
Built by an eccentric group of local wealthy businessmen in the early 19th century to emulate the look of Paris, this particular district serves two purposes. The first is being home to the University of Maine-Dunhurst the far more commonly used by the local populace as a 4 year public education institution. Student housing takes up a good portion of the district, all built in French style, housing students from all over New England as well as a number of cafes and stores to service them. The second being the home of the fashion industry of Dunhurst with the number of high, medium, and low end fashion boutiques being truly huge. The two groups do sometimes clash over expansion as both areas are constantly in a battle to control more of the district to expand for their own benefit.
44. The Rez
Not technically recognized by the Bureau for American Indian Affairs as a reservation, The Rez still serves as the home for the largest concentration of Native Americans in Maine even when including the Penobscot Reservation to the North. The Rez is a mostly working class neighborhood with some levels of recent gentrification that seems to endure out of spite since most of the other land is owned by the colonizers. This neighborhood consistently resists attempts by the surrounding high level business districts to buy them out for expansion leading to a very hardy culture in the neighborhood.
45. Fincher Row
A quiet middle class neighborhood in the South of Dunhurst, Fincher Row serves as the home for the many low and mid level workers of the nearby financial districts. The area is considered one of the quieter ones in Dunhurst and is considered an ideal place to raise a family if one wants to live in the city. It is mostly made up of town houses and low rise apartments built in the 1920s then later refurbished in the 1980s to serve as a quaint little neighborhood..
46. Wear Street
The louder and shinier cousin to Fells Heights, Wear Street is where the heart of Dunhursts club scene can be found. From mega clubs playing hosts with crowds that can reach into the low thousands to smaller more intimate affairs, Wear Street is the place to be for a club goer. There are clubs of all kinds to be found here from your normal nightclubs to goth to rave scenes. Wear Street caters to everyone. The nature of the glitz and glam of Wear Street does lead to a high level of turnover with most clubs not lasting more than a few years before a new place comes and replaces them unlike the more tenured Fells Heights.
47. Sandy Shore
The poorest neighborhood in southern Dunhurst, Sandy Shore is a bit at odds with the rest of the region in which it sits. There are a great many run down warehouses and working class housing areas located here that stand in stark contrast to the surrounding areas. Recently, there has even been talks of gentrifying the area and perhaps buying it out to either replace with nice apartments or turning it into another area for the financial district. The opinions on this in the neighborhood are very divided with some simply wanting the payout so they can leave while others feel an attachment to their homes and a desire want to stay.
33. Dunhurst Harbor
Within the heart of the maritime industry of Dunhurst, one can find a myriad of shipyards, passenger ports, and cargo docks constantly bustling with activity. This harbor was built in the 1870s to replace the far too small Edgewater Bay docks. The latter was unable to keep up with the rising demand for Dunhurst's port and thus industry moved with a far more sizeable location. In Dunhurst Harbor is the location of the Dunhurst Naval Base a large and important base for the US Navy and center for quite a bit of warship construction.
39. Nobility Hill Isles
Nobility Hills is the heart of the upper class of Dunhurst, with the exception of Ashton. It is here where the finest manors and mansions reside in all of Dunhurst, playing to the new and old rich of the city. Once a sacred space for the local Wabanaki natives, a fact that leads to occasional protests, the area was swiftly conquered during the initial settlement of Dunhurst and turned into a home for the rich. The great forests that once covered this island have for the most part been cut down. The only exception is the Palmer Estate which contains the last vestige of the great primeval forest thanks to the efforts to of its eccentric owners.