The Hawkins Strongbox Chronology

Updated and Appended as Items are Added to the Collection
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1895

Summer
Falynne Hyperion moves her airship engineering laboratory from England to Nevada, primarily to escape the industrial espionage perpetrated by jealous European rivals. Nevada rancher Giles Ainsworth provides a large tract of land on his Timberjack Ranch that affords Hyperion the necessary privacy to design and construct her fleet of Hyperion Zephyr Airships. 

September
Chicago Police Detective Fitzgerald forwards evidence of clockhead parts to Geoffrey Hawkins in Kansas City.  The mechanisms were found in the home of notorious serial killer H. H. Holmes. (Item 85: The Fitzgerald Envelope).

October
Geoffrey Hawkins convinces Timberjack Ranch owner Giles Ainsworth to expand the newly created Zephyr Air Field by adding a large estate that could serve as a strategic headquarters for the Society.