Where later would be the city of Acrola, before 701 there were a handful of villages around the Eram Branch of the New River. These included the major villages of Socionn and Herrob, but also smaller hamlets, like Bachre in the northeast part of what would later become the Pitt District. Socionn and Herrob were close competitors until a flood destroyed much of the latter, while the more inland former was largely spared. Socionn's ascendency began, and by the end of the seventh century they received tributes from each of the other local villages (the major market in the modern Herrob neighborhood, Herrob Dou, is where the elders of Herrob brought their dous, or tributes, to deliver to Socionn).
Socionn turned toward uniting the villages as one solid entity, and to this end they built a large north-south boulevard between Socionn and Herrob (in modern Union) in order to encourage growth between the two. The boulevard was lined with oak trees, called acrol trees in the Socionn dialect, and therefore in time became littered with acorns. It became known as the Acorol Way, taking its name from these things. Within a few decades, contrary to Socionn's desires, the united city was soon being called Acrola.
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