Derry is a fictional town in the U.S. state of Maine that has served as the setting for a number of Stephen King's novels, novellas, and short stories, notably It. Derry first appeared in King's 1981 short story "The Bird and the Album" and has reappeared as recently as his 2011 novel 11/22/63. Derry is said to be near Bangor, but King explicitly told his biographer, Tony Magistrale, that Derry is actually his portrayal of Bangor. A map on King's official website, though, places Derry in the vicinity of the town of Etna. King, a native of Durham, Maine, created a trinity of fictional Maine towns — Derry, Castle Rock and Jerusalem's Lot — as central settings in more than one work. Overview The town of Derry was first mentioned in Stephen King's 1981 short story "The Bird and the Album". While the town would be mentioned in various other stories, it was not until King's 1986 novel It when the town was used as a fully rendered setting. Besides the oft-used trinity of Derry, Castle Rock, and Jerusalem's Lot, King has created other fictional Maine towns, including Chamberlain in Carrie, Haven in The Tommyknockers, Little Tall Island in Dolores Claiborne and Storm of the Century, and Chester's Mill in Under the Dome. In 2016, it was announced that a new adaptation of It would split the novel into a two-part motion picture. During production, the producers of the 2017 film adaptation and its sequel, It Chapter Two, needed a small town in which to film, and Port Hope, Ontario was used for much of the exterior work for both movies. Some scenes said to be in Derry were shot elsewhere. The synagogue appearing in It Chapter Two was actually the Congregation Knesseth Israel in Toronto, while the Derry High school exteriors were filmed at the Mount Mary Retreat Centre in Ancaster, Ontario. Other Chapter 2 filming locations included the Scottish Rite Club in Hamilton, Ontario, Audley Park in Ajax, Ontario and Rouge Park in Scarborough, Toronto (as The Barrens). So-called "horror house" exteriors were built for the movies; both were located on the same property in Oshawa, Ontario. Locations within Derry The house on 29 Neibolt Street On several occasions in It, "the Losers Club" find themselves at 29 Neibolt Street, a run-down, abandoned house near the trainyard. It is here where Eddie Kaspbrak first encounters It, which shows