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'''What's Your Story? Video Game.''' During a trip to the library, the young hero (played by you) is sucked up into a mystical book that transports them back into time. They have no clue what has happened or how to get back, all they know is that people keep calling them the prophesied one. Throughout the game the hero must travel through the history of Henrico fighting evil minions sent by a man called Vastator and helping anyone who might need their help. Vastator, to say the least, hates all this new interference with his plans to take over Henrico, so he tries to stop the hero at every chance he gets. The ultimate decision is up to you, who do you save and who perishes. Do you have what it takes to save Henrico?

Chapter 1
Jamestown history In 1607, 104 settlers from the Virginia Company in London sailed to settle in the Chesapeake area. They landed on May 14, 1607. The settlement consisted of wooden palisades forming a triangle around a storehouse, church, and other houses. Through this time, the Algonquians played role of both friend and enemy. After the winter of 1609, also known as the “Starving Time,” the colony was about to dissolve. A new governor, Lord De La Ware, and supply ships kept the colony alive. The Algonquian Indians became allies after the wedding of the Algonquian chief’s daughter to John Rolfe. Henricus In 1611, a group of 300 settlers, led by Sir Thomas Dale, built the Citie of Henricus. Jamestown suffered from its location, and moving further inland was the solution proposed by the Virginia Company. It was 80 miles further up the James River than Jamestown. Massacre On March 22, 1622, the Algonquian Indians were welcomed into Jamestown to trade for glass, beads, and other trinkets. This was one of several peaceful trips done before. They came unarmed, and went into the settler’s houses, apparently, to trade. Grabbing whatever weapon or tool they could find, the Indians killed indiscriminately. In total, 347 men, women, and children were lost.

Chapter 2
Flood of 1771 On May 1771, the James River swept over its banks, rising forty feet higher over sixty hours. Houses and their inhabitants were swept from their foundations and carried away. The flood demolished furniture, trees, and warehouses as well. The currents made any attempts at rescue impossible, and one hundred and fifty people fell to the rising James.

The aftermath left debris such as deadwood and bodies on land fifteen to twenty feet higher than the normal level of the river. Records recount the following summer as “sickly.

Chapter 3
Gabriel the slave: Gabriel Prosser was born the year of 1776, and was a slave to Thomas Prosser on the Brownfield Plantation in Henrico County. Thomas Prosser was somewhat of a liberal master and allowed young Gabriel to be educated and learn the trade of Black Smith. This skill benefited him because this allowed him to be hired out to different plantations for work. He began to hear that there were black people in other parts of the world who were also oppressed as he was. He saw that people all over the world were fighting and dying for freedom at any cost. In 1800, when Gabriel is 24, he began to talk to other slaves and spoke to them about revolution. Gabriel soon had an army, which included the support of over 1,000 slaves. The event was planned for August 30, 1800. Slaves from adjoining countries would all meet just north of Brook Bridge on Brook Turnpike. They would then kill all the plantation owners and proceed towards Richmond and meet in Petersburg. The plan was to take over the capital city of Richmond, and persuade Governor James Monroe to accept their demands. The rebels set out on their mission but downpours washed out key bridges and delayed the plan. 27 of the alleged co- conspirators were captured, tried, and hung. Gabriel Prosser was captured and executed on October 10, 1800 at the city gallows.

Chapter 4
James Ewell Brown Stuart (aka J.E.B. Stuart) was born in Patrick County, Virginia in 1833, and he enrolled and graduated from U.S. Military academy in 1854. When American Civil War broke out, he resigned from his first commission with the United States Army to offer his service to Virginia. with his first famed cavalry raid that enhanced General Lee’s defense of Richmond in Seven Days’ Battles in 1862, he was promoted to major general and was assigned to command the cavalry force. As war carried on, his reputation built on with he led successful raids and adventures. However when 1864 arrived, Stuart was faced with a new Union cavalry commander, General Sheridan. in attempt to stop Sheridan’s raid upon Richmond, Stuart’s forces intercepted Sheridan at Yellow Tavern in front of Richmond and was mortally wounded. Stuart was buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond and is honored with a statue on Monument Ave. He is many times known as the most skilled intelligence officer of his era and was even referred as “the eyes of the army” by General Lee, and he still is widely admired in south. At downtown Richmond, a memorial still takes place near a shopping place called Virginia Center Commons.

Chapter 5
Railroad bed of Springfield and Deep Run Coal Pits transported coals to Richmond for domestic and industrial use. The line ran south for six miles to Kanawha Canal on the James River. A branch line of the railroad (3.5 miles long) was needed to reach the Springfield and Deep Run Coal Pits. In 1867, the Springfield and Deep Run Coal Mining Operation contracted with the R.F.& P. for the transportation of coal from the pits to a coal yard at Richmond

Chapter 6
On September 11, 1918, sailors in Norfolk reported ill with influenza and it soon spread across the state and price became ill with influenza in mid-October. Richmond city officials banned all the public gatherings, church services, and other events. The John Marshall high School became the emergency hospital and Lawrence Price was appointed director of emergency influenza work in Richmond. There was no cure available so doctors were trying all practices and theories that they have inquired before. As influenza struck the Richmond, the more people reached out to help with nursing care, funds, and ext. Finally during the summer of 1919, influenza begun to decline.

Chapter 7
On October 2, 1925, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad’s Church Hill Tunnel at Church Hill collapsed, burying large workers alive. The train was so well buried that several attempts, even in 2006, could not get the train out. It is said that after the accident, a blood covered creature with jagged teeth and skin hanging from its muscular body was seen clawing out of the cave-in tunnel and racing toward the James River. As armed men chased after him/her, the creature disappeared in a mausoleum built into a hillside marked with name W.W. Pool in Hollywood Cemetery. It was later reported that it was Ben Mosby, a worker on the train. He made it out of the tunnel and died a short while later in a local hospital. W.W.Pool’s grave has become very famous, but in bad way. People go to perform satanic rituals and leave crazy stuff, and it is said that his body has been stolen so many times that it was removed to somewhere else.

Chapter 8
The U.S.S Henrico was a Bayfield-class attack transport that served with the United States Navy in World War II, and later in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The ship was launched on 31 March 1943, sponsored by Mrs. W. D. Pelan, acquired by the Navy on 23 June 1943, and commissioned next day for transfer to Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation and then decommissioned on 8 July 1943, Henrico was then fitted out, and recommissioned on 26 November 1943 under Comdr. J. H. Willis who was in command. During WWII the Henrico helped out with the Normandy invasion. She embarked her invasion troops on 26 May at Portland, England, and sailed on 5 June. On the following day, Henrico landed her troops in the first assault wave in the face of heavy seas and strong enemy fortifications. As the tempo of fighting increased, the ship received casualties from the beaches, returning to Portland later on "D-Day". As the assault area was secured and the advance began, Henrico stood by for shuttle duty, finally sailing for the Firth of Clyde on 19 June. After the war, Henrico helped out with the Bikini Atoll work. She sailed on 25 May from Pearl Harbor to take part in the atomic tests at Bikini — "Operation Crossroads". For the next three months Henrico supported these scientific experiments, returning to San Francisco on 29 August 1946. After operations on the West Coast, she sailed on 6 February 1947 for a cruise in the western Pacific, returning in July. From 6 July 1948 to 25 February 1949 the ship operated in the Tsingtao, China, area in support of American troops. Operation Crossroads was a series of nuclear weapon tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll in the summer of 1946. Its purpose was to investigate the effect of nuclear weapons on naval ships. The tests conducted there were named Able, Baker, Charlie, and the Crossroads test (this was the name for the 4th and 5th tests conducted)

Chapter 9
In the 1890’s, Edmund Sewell Read founded the community of Highland Springs as a streetcar suburb of Richmond. Read came from Boston to the area in order to find a more suitable place for his wife. The natural springs in the area made it a good place for his family and it was also an inspiration for the name. Mid-way along the new streetcar route from Richmond througheastern Henrico County, he bought a 1000 acre tract of land and divided it into lots. Read laid out along the main street which was the pre-existing Nine Mile Road. New cross streets named in alphabetical order after plants were also laid out. (Starting from the west: Ash, Beech, Cedar, Daisy, Elm, Fern, Grove, Holly, Ivy, Juniper, Kalmia, Linden, Maple, Oak, Pine, Quince, Rose, and Spruce.) There is also a street named after Robert E. Lee and Edmund Sewell Read. Read’s house is situated on the south side of Nine Mile Road between Grove and Holly and today it is used as a medical office complex.

Chapter 10
A UFO was cited on August 9, 1966 by Sherriff Toby Mathews in Varina. During the spring and summer of that year, Mathews said that he had seen saucer like objects hovers over a cornfield near his farm, more than a half- dozen people reported a similar objects hovering over Henrico. At about 10:30 that evening, Mathews said that his German shepherd, who was tied to a chain in the back, began to bark loudly. Mathews then went to investigate; he ended up letting the dog loose that then ran to a neighboring cornfield. After re-chaining the dog, he went to sleep. At about 5 the next morning he went to go check on his dog. He let the dog loose again, but after a couple minutes the dog didn’t return, so Mathews went looking for him. He looked all around, but his dog was nowhere to be found. When he returned home, he was shocked to find his dog lying in the middle of the road motionless. The dog was dead, but he didn’t have a single mark on him and his chain collar had been removed and placed on the edge of the road. Whatever happened to his dog, Mathews believed it had to do with the saucer like objects he had seen earlier.