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Rh other, so they built their houses on the same road. That was the beginning of Main Street in your town.

There were children in these houses and they needed clothing, and food, and schooling. A shoe-maker, and a tailor, and a grocer came, and started their different shops. Then a school was built, and by that time there were more people and more houses in the growing town. The river brought ship builders and manufacturers. A church was built, and an iron foundry, and a railroad station. The town was busy all day, and wheel-wrights, blacksmiths, carpenters, bricklayers, druggists, bakers, dressmakers, and a doctor, a lawyer, and a host of other public helpers arrived and went to work, too.

There were a thousand people where once there had been only one family. The town needed side-walks that would be alike, and street lumps, and sewers, and a fire department, and some policemen. So all the people met and decided to call your town Hilldale. They asked the state to grant them a charter which would give them a right to elect town officers, and make town laws, and enforce these. When Hilldale grew from a thousand to many thousand inhabitants, it was given a new charter, and became a city.

Everyone in your town who owns land or buildings helps to pay for the comforts that come