10. Morgan County Reservoir

The area around Morgan County Reservoir is nice enough, but its proximity to the slums of Lockham keeps the reservoir neighborhood ever teetering on the brink of overt unpleasantness. Despite that nice enough façade, something’s wrong in the reservoir neighborhood, as an uncomfortable number of cases of syphilis have been traced back to the families living in the neighborhood. It hasn’t yet been declared an epidemic, but the “Morgan Mono” is a stigma currently attached to people from the neighborhood even if they don’t have the disease. Nobody knows what’s causing it or who first carried it in, but the rest of the city considers the reservoir neighborhood a bit of a joke — a haven for hicks, a den of swingers, a district of exceptionally horny and unclean teenagers — and all the derision does is shame the afflicted from treating their condition.

Background

Morgan County Reservoir marks the place where Morganville used to stand more than 100 years ago, before Newcastle grew southward past Black Lake and absorbed it. Thus, the neighborhood still feels a little bit different from Newcastle proper — its central post office is still called Morganville Post Office, for example. More than anything, the Morgan County Reservoir neighborhood feels stagnant, from the layer of verdigris over much of the titular reservoir to the houses that aren’t quite shabby but are somehow unappealing.

Alternative Name(s)

Sewers

Type

District

Location under

New Castle