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Ballyjamesduff was founded on March 27th 1697 by Seamus K. Dove. He was exiled from Virginia for refusing to marry his cousin in an arranged marriage. He later settled in a shack outside of the town and started his own taxidermy business. It was doomed to fail.That is, until the great cattle massacre of 1702, which resulted in 25,000 cattle and 2 sheep being killed in a gas explosion. Modern historians have suggested that maybe this was started by Seamus himself, but these findings are yet to be conclusive. The fallout from the massacre meant that Seamus had a large amount of work available in restoring the carcasses of the cattle for display in the Lords manors. A town soon built up around Duff's prospering industry.The town was then named after Seamus Dove. Modern bastardization of the language changed the ending from "Dove" to "Duff", but most people didn't care as they had discovered opium at the time and were too out of it to care. |
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