History of Duckburg

[pollux]

So, let's talk about the history of the city of Duckburg.

According to Don Rosa, Sir Francis Drake build a fort called "Fort Drakeborough" on Killmotor Hill in 1579. Later in the year 1818 Cornelius Coot took over it after he scared of Spanish troops by... making popcorn. Next year he renamed it "Fort Duckburg". Settlers came and a town developed around it. Duckburg remained quite small until Scrooge McDuck build his bin there in 1902. His presence created a boom and the town started to grow to a metropolis. At one point, the old town was buried and build over with new buildings. 28 years later, when Scrooge became the richest duck in the world, 1930, Duckburg has become a large city.

There are other versions, too. In one story, Cornelius Coot was a puritan-style exploring settler who set out with a ship and founded Duckburg somewhen in the 17th century at a place he thought was nice. Some European writes try to make Duckburg a European city and therefore much older.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

I have a fairly detailed outline to mostly fit all of these versions together. I don't have the time to post it here yet, I'll be back tomorrow or such.

[RobbK1]

Jul 21, 2018 21:31:10 GMT pollux said:

So, let's talk about the history of the city of Duckburg.

According to Don Rosa, Sir Francis Drake build a fort called "Fort Drakeborough" on Killmotor Hill in 1579. Later in the year 1818 Cornelius Coot took over it after he scared of Spanish troops by... making popcorn. Next year he renamed it "Fort Duckburg". Settlers came and a town developed around it. Duckburg remained quite small until Scrooge McDuck build his bin there in 1902. His presence created a boom and the town started to grow to a metropolis. At one point, the old town was buried and build over with new buildings. 28 years later, when Scrooge became the richest duck in the world, 1930, Duckburg has become a large city.

There are other versions, too. In one story, Cornelius Coot was a puritan-style exploring settler who set out with a ship and founded Duckburg somewhen in the 17th century at a place he thought was nice. Some European writes try to make Duckburg a European city and therefore much older.

Sure! Duckstad is in The Netherlands, and was probably founded by Cornelis Prul (Cornelius Coot) in The Gouden Eeuw (most likely around the beginning of The 1600s). 

[Monkey_Feyerabend]

Jul 22, 2018 6:23:54 GMT RobbK1 said:

Jul 21, 2018 21:31:10 GMT pollux said:

So, let's talk about the history of the city of Duckburg.

According to Don Rosa, Sir Francis Drake build a fort called "Fort Drakeborough" on Killmotor Hill in 1579. Later in the year 1818 Cornelius Coot took over it after he scared of Spanish troops by... making popcorn. Next year he renamed it "Fort Duckburg". Settlers came and a town developed around it. Duckburg remained quite small until Scrooge McDuck build his bin there in 1902. His presence created a boom and the town started to grow to a metropolis. At one point, the old town was buried and build over with new buildings. 28 years later, when Scrooge became the richest duck in the world, 1930, Duckburg has become a large city.

There are other versions, too. In one story, Cornelius Coot was a puritan-style exploring settler who set out with a ship and founded Duckburg somewhen in the 17th century at a place he thought was nice. Some European writes try to make Duckburg a European city and therefore much older.

Sure! Duckstad is in The Netherlands, and was probably founded by Cornelis Prul (Cornelius Coot) in The Gouden Eeuw (most likely around the beginning of The 1600s). 

No, it is in Southern Italy, and it was founded as a little Greek colony around 300BC, when it went by the name of Papiapolis (= city of ducks in Greek). It was just a tiny settlement of people living on top of a hill. When the Romans conquered the city in the year 120BC they renamed the hill Equos Necans Collis (=Horsekilling Hill in Latin).   

[RobbK1]

Jul 22, 2018 9:46:55 GMT Monkey_Feyerabend said:

Jul 22, 2018 6:23:54 GMT RobbK1 said:

Sure! Duckstad is in The Netherlands, and was probably founded by Cornelis Prul (Cornelius Coot) in The Gouden Eeuw (most likely around the beginning of The 1600s). 

No, it is in Southern Italy, and it was founded as a little Greek colony around 300BC, when it went by the name of Papiapolis (= city of ducks in Greek). It was just a tiny settlement of people living on top of a hill. When the Romans conquered the city in the year 120BC they renamed the hill Equos Necans Collis (=Horsekilling Hill in Latin).   

As Carl Barks once wrote: "Oh, So?"  

[pollux]

"Papiapolis?" Shouldn't it be Nessapolis? I speak a bit of Ancient Greek and my dictonaries only list this as the word for "duck".

Though, in the Greek version of the comics, the city is called "Limnupolis" which translates into "sea city". Since real ducks live at bodies of water as one knows. Mouseton is named "Miku Citu" there which is a transcription of English "Mickey City", akin to the French version which named the places after the main characters too - Donaldville and Mickeyville. Which is a bit silly, since it's unexplainable in-story.

[Monkey_Feyerabend]

I honestly never studied Ancient Greek, only Latin, so for the Papiapolis joke I just looked on Google translate. 

[Hyaroo]

I can't remember the story or who was behind it, but I know there was at least one story that made Scrooge the founder of Duckburg. He took part in a wagon race, won and as a prize got the land he'd covered in the race. I don't think this particular origin of Duckburg was ever mentioned outside that story, though, so I think we can safely declare it non-canon.

[crazycatlord]

There is also a serie of Brazilian stories about the Duckburg ("Patópolis"), but I don't remember of the details (the only story that I still have is a story where a Fethry-like viking discovers America - but thinking that it was China -, at the future place of Duckburg). But in that serie of stories, the city seems to be older than the Duckburg of Rosa's timeline.

inducks.org/subseries.php?c=Duckburg+Hist

[Lieju]

Well, in this Dutch story inducks.org/s.php?c=H+2016-046 the ancient Romans used to know the place and back then it was called Anatopolis.

[juicymcduck]

There's also this Italian story titled "Paperino e i cugini di Ocopoli" ("Donald and the Cousins from Goosetown") (I TL 2127-3), in which we read that Duckburg and Goosetown are twin towns separated by a place called the Valley of Roses, and that they were founded by two rival cousins who came from Scotland. It should be noted that there already were settlements when they arrived, since they stumbled upon a cottage inhabited by two sisters who grew roses and sold them at a faraway marketplace. So far, this story hasn't been translated in English AFAIK.

And then, the French version of War Of The Wizards (D 99038) has the Duckburg flashback in the year 1000 (!) instead of the 1700s as in the English version. It doesn't make much sense.