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we'll see driveways here. it's homes. >> this is a tour of the old neighborhood and explains an effort to a close thit family. my grand mother live add cross the street. the baby sister behind my grand mother. my mother lived here. my next to older sister lived in the back. this family was here. and mama needed a cup of sugar. i walked down because i can't

get to this door. i need flowers, quick. go there and go back to him. this was a beautiful, wonderful, wonderful community. we have had everything there was. there was family, church. church schools. people begin to get better jobs and showed them that it could be better in the future. for the next generation. >> it's a 150 year old african american community established by freed slaves. the white settlers there, one name was thomas rigmain freed

their slaves. about that time, also, the government started the homestead act. which would give citizens 160 acres and a mule. about about you approved the land 3, 4 years it became yours. and the community was grown perfect there. >> the word is another meaning for a pig or hog. and when people irs came here, there is a lot of wild hogs or pigs. and call it shop country.

and others fan getting more gentrified and a post office was established there. and there. >> over time, the area is an inindustrial area. we have a number of large industry. and industry began to expand and purchase property. the people began to leave and became more of an industrial area and some people left.

probably about 20 years ago or better. and a lot of the history of it started in this area. as for mossville and residents where this tank farm here, many years ago, before conaco expanded it was small. and this was actually, had homes here. families lived in this area. it's one of the first buyouts. families on both sides of the road. walked to expand for conaco. the development that you can see happened in the last five years.

that came in and in 2013. >> how many companies are operating within this area? >> within ten miles there is conaco phillips. there there is ppg. i would say at least 15 or 20. about 15. >> what are most of those companies making?

>> ppg paying city service the same as as. vinyl, clothing. >> there is a chemical manufacturing company. they were there in the process of building an $11 billion expansion. so products went into stuff for proctor and gamble. things like liquid tide and dish washing liquids and powders.

leadership was environmental action now group. they said give us an opportunity to move. >> i was hong one of the first to move and it would be tun for xen ragss still to come. i was living in had a close to 40 year old home. what it was getting offered were was much more to state.

i would have to have stayed and fight progress. that wasn't me. >> it was a program that basically paid a premium for reports in the mossville area. so if you had a rez tense would be looked at by train they weren't, we'd have a third appraisal and average two highest after those two appraisals were averaged we'd five an offer either appraised value, plus 60% premium. and if less than $100,000 we'd

assign six #% of appraised value. so yu get a sign of a value of $100,000 and 6 #% of $50 howes, so we tried do all of the things we can think of to position the residents to have a good experience in the move. >> i guess a is sense was trying to be labeling. and sh may just stay saudi arabiaing yabt and come back. my feeling is that they wanted

to be neighbors. you can see where expansion is. and to me, they didn't want to just come in and be hot being neighborly. here was my mother's and pather's property. that is what is left. in fact that is the, that was our front porch. i walked from here many, many days to school. i told them i had footprints under asphalt. this is where i lived.

had church has opinion here, coroner tells us, over 160 years this, this is a lot the original. you may he pictures of the hall church. this church was built probably at least 60 years ago. l is a frafs here that my family plots it back this the back. my mother, father, sisters and grand parents. >> we have had a hum decided not to move. they wanted to stay. they loved their house and

community. they didn't want the moving so this is individual. >> some people have the love to stay. some people owe would have stayed if conditions would aallowed us to. a lot of people had understanding had is one of the old, old sellers and this land here is brachlton's land. some is still hear and on the

property. and some grand sons live in that area. >> the power of the process meant that we have had to have a lot of conversation was a lot of people. that led up to them accepting and moving and so forth. first resident, jackie green said this is an easy place and so forth. >> i was having lunch with the then plant manager. the museum's mission, part of the mission is preserving unique culture and history of this area.

and so he asked me, what i would do and i tell them. first thing you would see would be the tomb stone so we anchor it with that. and we have pictures. that people provided us. people say i have a picture of this or so, of course we take anything we can get. this is an over 100 year old

community and did for the most part cease to exist due to modern expansion. it's worth while to preserve so people will know one time life was like it was. >> i would say the thing i would want maltville to be remembered as a community with ambitious ancestors that laid a ground work to being a good community. being a self sufficient community with ambitious and hard working people.

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