Orwell Orchards

Orwell Orchards is a location in the Forest region of Appalachia in 2103.

Background
Located in the hills overlooking Charleston, Orwell Orchards was a once prosperous farm that was experiencing hard times in 2077. In October of the same year, the orchards had been afflicted by moths, affecting the harvest. The attempts by the owners, Ian Orwell and Cheryl Bennett-Orwell, to obtain a much-needed loan was turned down by the banks. The oil traps they tried to use were ineffective but without enough money for insecticide, the harvest was severely endangered, with a predicted harvest of less than a hundred bushels.

There is a holotape stating that the Orwells won a $300,000 cash lottery just before the Great War, although according to Ian it would not have saved the farm anyway.

In October of 2103, Orwell Orchards became a nest for a horde of feral ghouls. The nest was rather troublesome and would attack caravans and other travelers that approached the highways near the orchards. Locals, such as the Putnams at Lewis & Sons Farming Supply, would petition the freshly arrived New Brotherhood of Steel to help alleviate the issue. The Brotherhood would send an prospective initiate to eradicate ghouls, either with or without the help of Colin or Marty Putnam.

Layout
Orwell Orchards is a farm that was once plagued by malfunctioning Mister Farmhands that attacked on sight, however, by the time of Steel Dawn the Mister Farmhands have become passive. The location contains a two-story farmhouse, inaccessible garage, and two barns.

The smaller barn has radioactive barrels piled outside against one of its walls. An armor workbench is at one end of the building and the Lucky Hits! lottery recording sits in an oil barrel, amongst some other trash. The larger barn contains a tinker's workbench and a workbench. It also has a duffle bag and an ammo box on its upper level.

The bottom floor of the farmhouse contains several chairs, a coffee table stacked on top of a couch, and a locked safe (Picklock 0). The upper floor contains a broken bed frame, a footlocker, and a locked wall safe (Picklock 0). Cheryl's journal sits on top of a dresser here.

In the basement of the farmhouse is the door to the bomb shelter that is only accessible during Field Testing.

Notable loot

 * Cheryl's journal - Holotape, on the top floor of the main house on a dresser.
 * Lucky Hits! lottery recording - Holotape, in a blue compost barrel in the warehouse surrounded by radioactive barrels.

Appearances
Orwell Orchards appears only in Fallout 76.