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unguarded trailer.
What everyone called the trailer park was really a
leveled field between Long Branch Road and Hope
Street where the Lattice and Goff Chinaware factory
had manufactured crockery from 1849 to 1929, when it
went bankrupt, and where the empty building had stood
from 1929 to 1959, when it was condemned and
demolished.
What everyone called Madder was really just the
working-class section of Dingley Falls, just everything
east of where the Rampage crossed under the bridge in
the noisy waterfall that had given the town its name and
its factories their first power. Just a late Victorian
annexation of the brick rowhouses built by the Dingleys
to house the men and women who came to work in the
Optical Instruments factory during its Gilded Age, and
the similar rowhouses built by Lattices and Goffs to
house the men and women who came to paint the same
patterns on eighty years of crockery, and the frame
boxes built by men and women who left behind small
farms to become small merchants, so that those who
worked in the factories would be fed, clothed, fueled,