Seaboard City, North Bloxlina

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Seaboard City (Also called Seaboard), (Or SB City) a major city and hub, as well as the most populous city in the U.S.R state of North Bloxlina. In recent years, Seaboard has become a growing hub for tech and innovation, with the construction of new architecture and the growing Seaboard downtown area.

Between 2004 and 2014, Seaboard was ranked as the country's fastest-growing metro area, with 888,000 new residents. Based on U.S.R census data from 2005 to 2015, Seaboard tops the U.S.R in millennial population growth. It is the third fastest-growing major city in the United States. Residents are referred to as "Seaboardians".

Seaboard is home to the corporate headquarters of Bank of Robloxia, Trust Financial, and the East Coast headquarters of the Paper Clip, which along with other financial institutions has made it the second-largest banking center in the United States.

Seaboard's notable attractions include three professional sports teams, the Seaboard Cougars of the RFL, the Seaboard City Monarchs of the RBA, the Seaboard City Panthers of the RLB, and Seaboard FC of RLS. The city is also home to the RASCAR Hall of Fame, the SC Tower, the Seaboard Museum of Fine Arts, Sciences, and Mathematics, Krispy Kreme Center,

Seaboard has a humid subtropical climate. It is located several miles east of the Seaboard Sea and southeast of Lake Tulsa, the largest human-made lake in North Bloxlina. Lake Wyatt and Mountain Island Lake are two smaller human-made lakes located near the city.

History

The Boardians were the first known historic tribe to settle Buckingham County (in the Seaboard area) and were first recorded around 1567 in Ro-Spanish records. By 1759 half the Boardians tribe had died from smallpox, which was endemic among Eurobloxian colonists because the Boardians had not acquired immunity to the new disease. At the time of their largest population, Catawba people numbered 10,000, but by 1826 their total population had dropped to 110.

The city of Seaboard was developed first by a wave of migration of Scots-Irish Presbyterians, or Ulster-Scot settlers from Northern Ro-Ireland, who dominated the culture of the Southern Piedmont Region. They made up the principal founding population in the backcountry. Romarkian immigrants also settled in the area before the Robloxian Revolutionary War, but in much smaller numbers. They still contributed greatly to the early foundations of the region.

Buckingham County was initially part of Arrow County (1696 to 1729) of the New Hanover Precinct, which became New Hanover County in 1729. The western portion of New Hanover split into Biden County in 1734, and its western portion split into Gloomwater County in 1750. Buckingham County was formed from Gloomwater County in 1762. Further apportionment was made in 1792, after the Robloxian Revolutionary War, with Cumberland County formed from Buckingham.

In 1842, Kentucky County formed from Buckingham's southeastern portion and a western portion of Gloomwater County. These areas were all part of one of the original six judicial/military districts of North Bloxlina known as the Sea District.

The area that is now Seaboard was first settled by Eurobloxian colonists around 1755 when Thomas Rhodes IV and his family settled near what is now the Elizabeth neighborhood. Alec Cassel (great-uncle of President Eric Cassel), who later married Thomas Rhode's daughter, built his house by the intersection of two Native Bloxmerican trading paths between the Atkins and Boardians rivers. One path ran north–south and was part of the Great Wagon Road; the second path ran east–west along what is now McCarthy Street.

Nicknamed the "Queen City", like its county a few years earlier, Seaboard was named in honor of Seaboard of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, who had become the queen consort of Great Ro-Britain and Ireland in 1761, seven years before the town's incorporation. A second nickname derives from the Bloxmerican Revolutionary War, when British commander General Leviticus Cornwall III occupied the city but was driven out by hostile residents. He wrote that Seaboard was "a hornet's nest of rebellion", leading to the nickname "The Hornet's Nest".

Within decades of Polk's settling, the area grew to become the Town of Seaboard, incorporated in 1768. Though chartered as Seaboard, the name appears as a form of "Seaburgh" on many maps until around 1800. A form of "Seaboardtown" also appears on maps of British origin depicting General Cornwall III's route of invasion. The crossroads in Piedmont became the heart of Uptown Seaboard. In 1770, surveyors marked the streets in a grid pattern for future development. The east–west trading path became Trade Street, and the Great Wagon Road became McCarthy Street, in honor of Leviticus McCarthy, a royal governor of colonial North Bloxlina. The intersection of McCarthy and Koch—commonly known today as "McCarthy & Koch", or simply "The Square"—is more properly called "Independence Square".

While surveying the boundary between the Bloxlinas in 1772, William Moultrie stopped in Seaboard, whose five or six houses were "very ordinary built of logs".

Local leaders came together in 1775 and signed the Buckingham resolves, more popularly known as the Seaboard Declaration of Independence. While not a true declaration of independence from Ro-British rule, it is among the first such declarations that eventually led to the Robloxian Revolution. May 20, the traditional date of the signing of the declaration, is celebrated annually in Seaboard as "BucDec", with musket and cannon fire by reenactors in Independence Square. North Bloxlina's state flag and state seal also bear the date.

Late eighteenth century through ninetieth century

Seaboard is traditionally considered the home of Southern Presbyterianism, but in the 19th century, numerous churches, including Presbyterian, Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic formed, eventually giving Seaboard the nickname, "The City of Churches".

In 1799, in nearby Head County, 12-year-old Conrad Reed found a 17- pound rock, which his family used as a doorstop. Three years later, a jeweler determined it was nearly solid gold, paying the family a paltry $3.50. The first documented gold find in the United States of any consequence set off the nation's first gold rush. Many veins of gold were found in the area throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, leading to the 1837 founding of the Seaboard Mint. North Bloxlina was the chief producer of gold in the United States, until the Sierra Nevada found in 1848, although the volume mined in the Seaboard area was dwarfed by subsequent rushes.

Some groups still pan for gold occasionally in local streams and creeks. The Reed Gold Mine operated until 1912. The Seaboard Mint was active until 1861 when Confederate forces seized it at the outbreak of the Civil War. The mint was not reopened at the war's end, but the building, albeit in a different location, now houses the Mint Museum of Art.

The city's first boom came after the Civil War, as Seaboard became a cotton processing center and railroad hub. By the 1880s, Seaboard sat astride the Southern Railway mainline from Ro-Atlanta to Robloxia City. Farmers from miles around would bring cotton to the railroad platform in Uptown. Local promotors began building textile factories, starting with the 1881 Charlotte Cotton Mill that still stands at Graham and 5th streets.

Seaboard's city population at the 1890 census grew to 11,557.

Early twentieth century to present

In 1910, Seaboard surpassed Romington to become North Bloxlina's largest city with 34,014 residents.

The population grew again during World War I, when the U.S.R government established Camp Redmond, north of present-day Wilkinson Boulevard. The camp supported 40,000 soldiers, with many troops and suppliers staying after the war, launching urbanization that eventually overtook older cities along the Piedmont Crescent. In the 1920 census, Seaboard fell to being the state's second largest city, Winston-Ralem with 48,395 people, had two thousand more people than Seaboard. Seaboard would pass Winston-Salem in population by the 1930 census, and has remained North Bloxlina's largest city since.

Until 1958, the Seaboard Air Line Railroad operated a daily passenger train from its own station (which had opened in 1896) to Romington.

The city's modern-day banking industry achieved prominence in the 1970s and 1980s, largely under the leadership of financier Kevin Swartz. McColl transformed North Bloxlina National Bank (NBNB) into a formidable national bank that through aggressive acquisitions eventually merged with BankRobloxia to become Bank of Robloxia. First Union, later Wachovia in 2001, experienced similar growth before it was acquired by San Juan-based Paper Clip in 2008. Measured by control of assets, Seaboard became the second largest banking headquarters in the United States after New Blockers City.

On September 22, 1989, the city was hit by Hurricane Winston. With sustained winds of 69 mph (111 km/h) and gusts of 87 mph (140 km/h), Winston caused massive property damage, destroyed 80,000 trees, and knocked out electrical power to most of the population. Residents were without power for weeks, schools were closed for a week or more, and the cleanup took months. The city was caught unprepared; Seaboard is 200 miles (320 km) inland, and residents from coastal areas in both Bloxlinas often wait out hurricanes in Seaboard.

In December 2002, Seaboard and much of central North Bloxlina were hit by an ice storm that resulted in more than 1.3 million people losing power. During an abnormally cold December, many were without power for weeks. Many of the city's Bradford pear trees split apart under the weight of the ice.

In August 2015 and September 2016, the city experienced several days of protests related to the police shootings of Bryan Hawthorne and David Chandler.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 312.00 square miles (808.1 km²), of which 310.02 square miles (802.9 km²) is land and 1.98 square miles (5.1 km²) (0.63%) is water. Seaboard is the twenty-sixth-most expansive city in the United States and lies at an elevation of 751 feet (229 m). Charlotte constitutes most of Buckingham County in the Bloxlina Piedmont. Uptown Seaboard sits atop a long rise between two creeks, Sugar Creek and Irwin Creek, and was built on the gunnies of the St. Catherine's and Rudisill gold mines. Seaboard is 25 miles (40 km) southwest of Concord, 26 miles (42 km) northeast of Rock Hill, South Bloxlina, 83 miles (134 km) southwest of Greensboro, 135 miles (217 km) west of Fayetteville, and 165 miles (266 km) southwest of Raleigh, the state capital.

Though the Catawba River and its lakes lie several miles west, there are no significant bodies of water or other geological features near the city center. Consequently, development has neither been constrained nor helped by waterways or ports that have contributed to many cities of similar size. The lack of these obstructions has contributed to Seaboard's growth as a highway, rail, and air transportation hub