After the cholera plague of 1849, Westport Landing (the American Fur Company's now burgeoning trading post) became commonly known as "Death City," and more as a local joke than anything else, became incorporated as "Necropolis" in 1853.

   The Wyandotte Indians, no longer under the guidance of the Dreamspeaker cabal, decided to sell their land to the Federal Government in 1855, electing to become U.S. citizens. The city of Wyandotte was officially established by settlers from St. Louis, and was, for a time, the largest community in Missouri. However, in 1859, the city was incorporated into the "more prestigious sounding" Necropolis, perhaps either out of prejudice against Native Americans, or Malkavian influence.

   Between the Wyandotte Constitution and the U.S. government's "Kansas/Missouri Compromise," the state of Kansas was admitted to the Union in 1859, as a free state. The tension created between free Kansas and slave allowing Missouri was a key issue to the American Civil War, which began in 1861, and was not lost on the populace of Necropolis.

   In October of 1864, Union soldiers, with the aid of the nearby Caern's Uktena (who had come to the logical conclusion that if the south was permitted to secede, their policies of slavery might soon extend to native Americans) repulsed a Confederate attack at the "Battle of Westport." This battle resulted in great loss of life, as well as damage to the surrounding city.

   The Missouri Pacific Railroad reached Necropolis in 1865, and in 1869 the Hannibal Bridge became the first bridge to span the Missouri River, and was opened to traffic. By 1870, eight railroads were servicing the Necropolis area.

     Old Necropolis, west of the Kaw River in the state of Kansas was platted in 1868, and incorporated into the Wyandotte community in 1872. In 1886, the cities east and west of the river, though in two different states were consolidated, and in 1889, the name Necropolis became official to the Missouri communities as well. Two cities - one Necropolis.

INDUSTRIALIZATION AND VENTRUE EXPANSIONISM

   In the 1870s, the Syndicate (through its relationship with Pentex) had begun to nurture the meat packing and grain procession industries in Necropolis, reversing the flow of westward traffic that had been nearly constant since the Gold Rush of 1849. The success of those industries, as well as its location as a transportation hub, drew the attention of several Ventrue Kindred, who made their way to the city.

   Finding their corridors into the stockyards and grain elevators limited, the Ventrue seized control of the transportation industry. Furthermore, they established Necropolis as the site of a major automotive assembly industry, second in size only to Detroit, in the U.S. Ventrue political maneuvering also caused Necropolis, despite its inland location to become one of the few foreign trade centers in the U.S., one of less than a dozen.

   Ventrue influence continued to grow in the years before World War One. Since the Kindred population was sparse, the Ventrue felt no need to declare a Prince of the city. Instead, a "Board of Directors" ran Necropolis - none opposed their governance, as there were curiously few to do so.

   In the early part of the 20th century, Ventrue controlled management clashed with Brujah controlled labor unions. The dispute came to a head at the Missouri Lumber Company Sawmill, where a labor strike was forcibly broken by the state militia, resulting in loss of life. One of the Ventrue "Directors" disappeared during the conflict, and was never heard from again. Both the Brujah and the Ventrue, sensing greater powers at work, agreed to disagree and went their separate ways, neither gaining advantage over the other. The mill was closed in the aftermath.

   Following WWI, the Ventrue and the Syndicate continued to seed a rapid industrial expansion, and skyscrapers began to transform the skyline. In response, Brujah Individualists brought a voice back to the people by laying down the blueprint for the "urban political machine," through their pawn, local Democratic Party leader Thomas J. Pendergast. Of two faces on many things, this organization kept alive many programs of genuine civic involvement even against the monumental adversary of the Great Depression. However, it also established a record of graft and political chicanery that made Necropolis notorious throughout the nation as a center of corrupt "boss rule." The Pendergast machine's influence began to decline after it lost the mayoral election of 1940.

   Necropolis came through WWII quietly, and unscathed. The cities only claim to the war lying in the fact that President Harry S. Truman, who ended the War by giving the order to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, is from nearby Independence, MO, which is considered part of Greater Necropolis.

   Toreador influence is not lost on Necropolis either. Following WWII, a massive urban renewal project began in the city. As Ventrue control took hold, Toreador began flocking to the city and working their art on its landscape. Necropolis is not known as the "City of Fountains" for nothing - there are over 125 of them in the city proper. Toreadors have established practically every art form in the city in some way or another, from the Missouri Repertory Theater to the Municipal Rose Gardens.