Timeline

A timeline of all events in the history of Mount Absalom that have dates or approximate dates. Please be warned that this contains unmarked spoilers for the entire podcast up to the end of Season 2.

1700s
1796


 * Mount Absalom is founded by Reverend Silas Lodge


 * Fenwood House is built by the Lyle family

1800s
1815


 * First Celery Festival in Mount Absalom

Around 1820


 * The building under the observatory is covered by a man-made hill
 * First mention of Chapel Hill in state and local records

1840


 * Theodoric Standish, presumably an ancestor of Rusty Standish, is born

1853


 * Fenwood House is bought by the husband of a “seamstress”, later rumoured be a spy for the Union army

1863


 * Fenwood House possibly used as a Union military hospital
 * Theodoric Standish dies

1873 


 * First Mount Absalom vs Julian Hayride Race

1874 


 * Theodoric Warren, presumably an ancestor of Chester Warren and member of one of the town’s founding families, is born

1876


 * Josephine Pratt is born

Estimated between 1880-1884


 * Norah Tendulkar is born in Liverpool, England

1889


 * Josephine Pratt dies

1896 


 * Eight people die of tuberculosis in Fenwood House
 * A large portion of the town, including Fenwood House, burns down
 * Reverend Silas Lodge is inaccurately reported dead

1899


 * Fenwood House is rebuilt by Eliza Fenwood, presumably renamed
 * Fenwood House begins paying “exemption fee” for Ohio's brothel law

1900s
1908-1912


 * Cornelius “Corny” Deerfield is named Indiana Feed and Seed Salesman of the year

1909 


 * The observatory’s telescope is designed and by Norah Tendulkar

1911


 * Norah Tendulkar dies
 * The official recorded date of telescope’s design

Estimated 1917 - 1919


 * Mount Absalom vs Julian Hayride Race suspended due to World War I

1917


 * Theodoric Warren dies

1924


 * Rain floods Mount Absalom Graveyard; when the bodies are returned there are twenty-three extra
 * The flood rains also damages parts of the library

1928


 * Tim Anderson is born in Burlington, Ohio

1935


 * Deidre Abernathy, notorious serial poisoner, stays briefly at Fenwood House

1937 


 * The “Chill of ’37”
 * Frank “Giddy” Gideon stays at Fenwood House
 * Theodore Wesley is born

Est 1942 - 1945 


 * Mount Absalom vs Julian Hayride Race suspended due to World War II
 * Houses are built along Oak Street

1954


 * Theodore Wesley dies

1956


 * Dorothy Harper is born

Estimated 1960s and 1970s


 * A great number of birds are shot in the woods around Mount Absalom

1970s


 * A fast food restaurant called The Hamboree exists in Mount Absalom

Summer 1971


 * Tim Anderson arrives in Mount Absalom

1972


 * Rusty Standish produces the folk album “Memories on the Road” in Mount Absalom, possibly kisses Dorothy Harper

1973


 * Dr. Conrad Cartwright stays briefly at Fenwood House

1978


 * Tim Anderson dies, is later seen back at Fenwood House

Between 1977- 1983


 * Chester Warren is born

1984


 * Lily Harper is born

1989


 * The Delphic Order attempts to force a sale of Fenwood House through Eminent Domain

1993


 * Land where Hunter’s Diner will later appear is vacant

1996 


 * Grant Fenwood dies
 * Tim Anderson is no longer seen around town
 * Fire in the burning woods
 * The last of the houses in Oak Street burn down
 * Chester Warren is trapped in a storm cellar for three days during the fire
 * The Delphic Order try and fail to force a sale of Fenwood House through Eminent Domain
 * Dot Harper and Dale Harper separate
 * Dorothy Harper takes over Fenwood House
 * The Mount Absalom Library is infested with squirrels

1997 


 * The Delphic Order attempts to force a sale of Fenwood House through Eminent Domain

2000s
Estimated 2004-2006


 * Lily Harper stops visiting Mount Absalom

2010 


 * The Delphic Order attempts to force a sale of Fenwood House through Eminent Domain, fail again

2016


 * Wes begins working at Fenwood House

April 15th, 2018 


 * Abbie Douglas arrives in Mount Absalom

Late June, 2018 


 * Hunter’s Diner appears

Summer, 2018


 * Dorothy Harper injures her leg
 * Lily Harper arrives in Mount Absalom
 * The Delphic Order throws a History Pageant and Meat Raffle for the first time in around a decade
 * Rudy Peltham arrives in Mount Absalom
 * A door appears in the basement of Fenwood House
 * The 203rd Celery Festival in Mount Absalom
 * Two people found dead in The Burning Woods, killed by Silas

Halloween, 2018


 * A door appears in the basement of Fenwood House

November, 2018


 * Abbie Douglas is briefly employed at Hunter’s Diner
 * Hunter’s Diner is closed down for health code violations
 * Rudy Peltham is injured in the Observatory
 * The floor of the observatory basement is broken through, Lily Harper begins but doesn't finish descending down
 * Wes vanishes
 * Silas Lodge makes an appearance at the Fenwood Thanksgiving dinner

December, 2018


 * Abbie Douglas descends down into Chapel Hill
 * Rudy begins his initiation into The Delphic Order
 * Christmas at Fenwood House. Dot Harper has a sundowning episode