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Fontaine Family Tree, Plot Base, Event Identification, Event…
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Plot Base
1880
Upon exiting the building, you are put into the era of Neill's ownership of the building on top of the outside of Wheatville, a freedman settlement.
Venturing outside the now opened gates of the NCHM, you discover The Gold Dollar building, where you meet George Fontaine, Jacob Fontaine's son. He's been put responsible to help his father with the establishments around the Wheatville.
You help George by doing various tasks, starting with circling around houses to deliver newspapers,
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Event Identification
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Circa 1867-1898: Oral history cites that Fontaine, presumably accompanied by St. John members, would march down Congress and sing, the one song being mentioned being John Brown's Body
Event Identification
1879: Fontaine's house on 2400 San Gabriel, next to The Gold Dollar building, was burned down by "agents unknown", assumed to be "white folks". Firefighters did not intervene.
1880: Fontaine lives in Lot 1 of The Gold Dollar Building, which was purchased by Fontaine in 1870.
1881-1882: Profuse advocacy for The University of Texas to be established in Texas through educating black voters across Texas. Oral history sites William Winston Fontaine (?), Edward's first cousin, as a Latin professor from UT that helped with Jacob's education.
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Event Identification
"Fontaine started his newspaper there, with sixty dollars he earned from the investment of a gold dollar given to him in 1872 by his sister, Nelly Miller, when they were reunited in Mississippi after a separation caused twenty years before by slavery."
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In-Between Establishing: You must obtain a specific set of items found in the different time periods in order to enter other portals.
[Note: Future updates can entail a separate side story learning about the lives of the 3 servants within the NCHM]
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