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Oliver Humphrey	I been around here ever since.	0:00
Interviewer 1	Who's next? Oh, it's—and I'm—	0:39
Oliver Humphrey	I'm Oliver Humphrey. I was born in [indistinct 00:00:39] April the 9th, 1913.	0:39
Interviewer 2	Okay there. Mr. Best.	0:47
Speaker 4	I was born 1917, March the 17th. And I was born here, been living here. This is [indistinct 00:00:48]. People that know.	0:47
Interviewer 2	Okay.	0:47
Speaker 4	[indistinct 00:00:48].	0:47
Interviewer 2	And Mr. Leamon?	0:47
Leamon Dillahunt	My name is Leamon Dillahunt. Born year 1925. Lived here all my life, two years in the military served.	0:47
Interviewer 2	Okay.	0:47
Interviewer 1	[indistinct 00:01:02]	0:47
Leamon Dillahunt	Yeah, I do not know. One of the old [indistinct 00:01:12]	0:47
Interviewer 1	In the same area that it has [indistinct 00:01:25]	0:47
Leamon Dillahunt	Just about the same area, not to far. One of them's been moved to around— and now this one pushed on the side, and it's beside it.	0:47
Interviewer 1	OK, so it's all in the same spot in the area?	0:47
Leamon Dillahunt	In the same spot. Yep, lodged around it.	0:47
Interviewer 1	OK, so there are— yep.	0:47
Speaker 6	I think they're ready.	0:47
Interviewer 2	Alright I'll call them in.	0:47
Interviewer 1	OK. Well, just talk a little bit about [indistinct 00:02:03] Just talk, and tell us a little bit about—	0:47
Interviewer 2	From your early remembrance can you recollect the year you can first remember anything about Pleasant Hill Church?	2:06
Speaker 8	Yeah.	2:14
Interviewer 2	Yes. First year that you can remember going to Pleasant Hill Church or—If you heard someone say when it was first organized, or how long it's been there.	2:15
Speaker 8	It's been around before we were born.	2:26
Interviewer 2	Okay.	2:31
Speaker 8	Our mothers [indistinct 00:02:34] and all of them, they were there. They got baptized. Let's see, now where were they baptized. I think the girl took them up there to this place up there which I remember [indistinct 00:02:50]	2:31
Interviewer 2	What's the name of that place?	2:43
Speaker 9	Bison Creek	2:43
Speaker 8	Yeah Bison Creek.	2:43
Interviewer 2	Okay.	2:43
Speaker 8	I'm sorry, I know my mama talking about that, how they used to go in there and fish used to be in there sometimes when they were baptized. But it wasn't right there, back then in the rules that [indistinct 00:03:16]	3:07
Interviewer 2	Okay. Can you give me an estimate, how old do you think Pleasant Hill Church is?	3:15
Speaker 8	Let's see, 18—Best I can remember what I would—My mama [indistinct 00:03:28] her granddaddy. That was in the 1850's and the church were there then.	3:27
Interviewer 2	Okay. So, Pleasant Hill Church is at least over—If you're talking about 1850, you're looking at basically at least 100 years old and this is 1991 so you're looking at possibly 141 years old.	3:54
Speaker 8	At least 150 cause—See, 1836 when Michael's daddy, that boy [indistinct 00:04:10]	4:09
Interviewer 2	Okay. The church was there then?	4:09
Speaker 8	Yeah, the church.	4:27
Interviewer 2	Okay. So it's at least over 150 years old.	4:33
Speaker 8	Yes.	4:34
Interviewer 2	All right.	4:36
Speaker 8	[indistinct 00:04:38] Can I share again?	4:39
Interviewer 2	Yes, go ahead.	4:40
Speaker 8	I remember my grandmother telling me she was born the same day that they [indistinct 00:04:41]	4:41
Interviewer 2	Is that the church you run?	4:41
Speaker 8	[indistinct 00:04:41]	4:41
Interviewer 2	Okay and that was your grandmother?	4:41
Speaker 8	Yeah, that was my grandmother.	4:41
Interviewer 2	Okay.	4:41
Speaker 8	She told me she was born the same day that the [indistinct 00:04:56]	4:45
Interviewer 2	Okay. Do you remember the date or the year when your grandmother was born?	4:56
Speaker 8	Oh, no. I don't know.	5:12
Interviewer 2	Okay. It was in the 1800's though?	5:13
Speaker 8	Yeah, yes. 18—	5:13
Interviewer 2	Okay.	5:22
Speaker 8	She said she was born that same day that they [indistinct 00:05:25]	5:24
Interviewer 2	Okay. And Pleasant Hill Church was in existence at that time?	5:24
Speaker 8	[indistinct 00:05:25]	5:24
Interviewer 2	Okay, alright, thank you.	5:24
Interviewer 1	The Evan's Cemetery [indistinct 00:05:25] in the back out there, they said it was—The cemetery behind the church, pointing at the church. They didn't have the cemetery back from the church. And they called it Evan's Cemetery and you said it was about 35-40 people there and it was around 1800 but he didn't know about what year.	5:24
Speaker 8	No, I remember the cemetery. The one there and one in the way back that way [indistinct 00:05:27]	5:24
Interviewer 2	Okay, all right. So you're saying there is a cemetery behind Pleasant Hill Church?	5:27
Speaker 8	Yeah.	6:10
Interviewer 1	So, it's 2 cemeteries [indistinct 00:06:14] and they also said that somebody—the Indian and the Black people are back there.	6:14
Speaker 8	Mm-hmm, that's what I heard through the city.	6:19
Interviewer 1	Okay. It also says there was a [indistinct 00:06:28] all those are back there, besides more.	6:19
Interviewer 2	Okay.	6:25
Interviewer 1	Besides more people.	6:25
Interviewer 2	And they are buried back in the wooded area behind Pleasant Hill Church?	6:46
Speaker 8	That's right.	6:48
Interviewer 2	Okay.	6:48
Speaker 8	Way back there. I remember when that church was just wood. When you would come in—When the cemetery was logs back there. I used to go back in there. In fact, I used to help cut it off with my own hands.	6:48
Interviewer 1	Okay. Do you remember what else is back there [indistinct 00:07:05]	7:02
Speaker 8	No, not that I know.	7:02
Interviewer 1	Okay. So just the people that were back there that—	7:07
Speaker 8	Yeah they was back there.	7:08
Interviewer 1	Okay. So there was a small community of people back there?	7:08
Speaker 8	That's right.	7:08
Speaker 9	Oh yeah, [indistinct 00:07:15]	7:08
Speaker 8	I mean at that time.	7:15
Interviewer 1	Well sure I mean that means that—I remember houses back then when I was young but I didn't know it was that many people.	7:17
Speaker 8	Oh yeah.	7:32
Speaker 9	Plenty of them back then.	7:32
Interviewer 1	So if they come through with that power, they would have to dig up all those graves?	7:35
Speaker 9	Exactly.	7:38
Interviewer 1	Or they would disturb the graves.	7:38
Speaker 9	That's right.	7:38
Interviewer 1	Okay. And those graves are over 100 years of age?	7:44
Speaker 9	Yeah, I would say.	7:44
Interviewer 1	Okay.	7:48
Speaker 8	Yeah. Well I'd say a little over a 100 years old cause my granddaddy died 1917, and I'm [indistinct 00:07:57] My granddaddy, he died the same year I was born. He died on the 23rd and I was born on the 17th.	7:49
Interviewer 2	Okay. And he's buried in cemetery behind Pleasant Hill Church?	8:16
Speaker 8	No [indistinct 00:08:18]	8:17
Interviewer 2	Okay. So you have definite proof and knowledge that there is a cemetery behind Pleasant Hill Church? At least 2 cemeteries.	8:23
Speaker 9	There's 2.	8:34
Speaker 8	I know there's 2 back there cause I been back in there and walked through them and been back there [indistinct 00:08:35] with people back in there.	8:35
Interviewer 2	Okay.	8:44
Speaker 8	The one in the back there where [indistinct 00:08:47]	8:45
Interviewer 2	Okay.	8:46
Speaker 8	They'll clean this one, keep this one clean—	8:46
Interviewer 2	Okay. It's basically it's been back there so long that, you know, it's basically trees and everything growed up.	8:57
Speaker 8	Yeah. When they cut that [indistinct 00:09:06]	9:03
Interviewer 2	Okay.	9:09
Speaker 8	Try and walk through there. It used to be a road through there where you travel through there, you know, gone.	9:11
Speaker 11	[indistinct 00:09:14]	9:13
Speaker 8	Yeah that's where I used to go, around through that way.	9:13
Interviewer 1	Okay. Well that highway that goes back there, was it brick to was it just plain dirt?	9:26
Speaker 11	You walk through there, walk down the railroad to go to cross [indistinct 00:09:42] and then get to the railroad and walk down the railroad to get to the [indistinct 00:09:49]	9:32
Interviewer 2	Okay. Thank you gentlemen. Very nice.	9:53
Interviewer 1	Do you remember who house was there first? Was it the dad's house or the [indistinct 00:10:00] down here at the end of the fork of the road?	9:56
Speaker 8	[indistinct 00:10:05]	10:02
Interviewer 1	Okay [indistinct 00:10:08]	10:07
Speaker 8	As far as I know [indistinct 00:10:22]	10:07
Interviewer 2	Okay. So you're saying that [indistinct 00:11:11] houses is one of the oldest houses in this section? If not the oldest. Is his house one of the oldest?	11:12
Speaker 8	I ain't talking about the new one now, I'm talking about the old house.	11:22
Interviewer 2	Okay. Is his house one of the—Is the house that's on highway 55 now, the two-story house, is that basically one of the oldest houses that was in this community?	11:23
Speaker 8	The oldest one standing.	11:32
Interviewer 2	That's standing?	11:34
Speaker 9	[indistinct 00:11:37] but nobody's still around.	11:36
Speaker 8	Somebody's house over here what you're talking about [indistinct 00:11:44] didn't move out here til 1919.	11:39
Speaker 9	That's right.	11:40
Speaker 8	And that's [indistinct 00:11:46] 1919, that's been 73 years or something like that.	11:40
Speaker 9	He moved out of Oregon right?	11:45
Speaker 8	Right [indistinct 00:12:05]	12:05
Interviewer 2	Okay.	12:05
Speaker 8	This house was here before he got down there.	12:12
Interviewer 2	Okay. So cause—	12:13
Speaker 8	I can understand it clear—I had a great, great, great uncle [indistinct 00:12:14]	12:13
Interviewer 2	Okay. So Mr [indistinct 00:12:14] was here before the Bemus house [indistinct 00:12:16]	12:14
Speaker 8	Yeah.	12:17
Interviewer 2	Okay. And you said that Bemus moved here in—	12:17
Speaker 8	Moved from [indistinct 00:12:23] in 1919, wasn't it? [indistinct 00:12:26]	12:22
Speaker 9	19 or 1921.	12:25
Speaker 8	19, I think 1919.	12:25
Interviewer 2	Okay. And Mr. Best, you say you was born in your father's house and you was born in 1917?	12:31
Speaker 4	Yeah.	12:38
Interviewer 2	Okay. And so you were born in that house?	12:38
Speaker 4	Yes sir.	12:40
Interviewer 2	And you think you have an older brother that was also born in—	12:40
Speaker 4	I think so. 1. They were born in there. Nate was born in here. We were 1 year old when we moved in there, that was 1909.	12:50
Interviewer 2	Okay.	13:01
Speaker 4	That was my brother but still it was [indistinct 00:13:06] and they moved there, and that was like this was.	13:03
Interviewer 2	Okay.	13:25
Speaker 4	Yeah, 1909 when they moved [indistinct 00:13:26]	13:25
Interviewer 2	Okay. So basically that house is over 80 something years old?	13:26
Speaker 4	Yeah.	13:28
Interviewer 2	Okay.	13:28
Speaker 4	That's correct.	13:29
Interviewer 2	Okay, per to your recollections over 80 years old.	13:32
Speaker 11	Who house is 80 years old?	13:35
Interviewer 2	Isaiah Best house is over 80 years old.	13:39
Speaker 4	[indistinct 00:13:42]	13:41
Interviewer 2	Okay. Is there another house in this the Pleasant Hill area that's basically an old structure that's been standing for a long period of time.	13:42
Speaker 8	That house down [indistinct 00:14:04] the homestead house, the little one. That's the old homestead house. I know you wasn't born then.	14:03
Speaker 9	No.	14:11
Speaker 8	And I know [indistinct 00:14:17] my daddy moved over there [indistinct 00:14:27]	14:12
Interviewer 2	Okay. Is there another house you can think of that's in Pleasant Hill at this time that is old or as old as Isaiah Best house on highway 55?	14:37
Speaker 8	[indistinct 00:14:52]	14:46
Interviewer 2	Okay. Is there a house now that's currently still standing?	14:54
Speaker 8	[indistinct 00:15:01]	14:57
Speaker 11	Okay. And you're saying that [indistinct 00:15:10] house is the original house where—	15:09
Speaker 8	Yeah, yeah. It's one of the oldest ones here [indistinct 00:15:16]	15:13
Interviewer 2	Okay. So basically Isaiah Best house is over 80 some years old and how bout his brother Willie Best, do you know how old his home is?	15:20
Speaker 8	That's definitely an old house too but it been burnt down.	15:29
Speaker 9	But it's been remodeled ain't it?	15:33
Speaker 8	Yeah it's been remodeled. And old man Hill house, it's been burnt down. You know it used just an old, old house.	15:35
Speaker 9	[indistinct 00:15:46]	15:45
Interviewer 2	Okay. So let me ask you gentlemen, so you're saying that there is some houses, at least 2 houses in Pleasant Hill that of significant historical [indistinct 00:16:08] tot he community that's been here for a long period of time and still standing. Okay.	15:59
Speaker 9	[indistinct 00:16:16]	16:15
Speaker 8	Yeah, that's an old house.	16:16
Speaker 9	When I was [indistinct 00:16:37]	16:32
Speaker 8	But she just been remodeled. She got a house over in the recreation area. That's an old house.	16:52
Speaker 9	Yeah that house old. [indistinct 00:17:06] the house still standing.	16:59
Interviewer 2	Okay. The house still standing. So that's another home that has, basically, a historical home in the community that's still standing.	17:08
Speaker 9	Right. It's still there.	17:14
Speaker 8	You got maybe 3 or 4.	17:15
Interviewer 2	Okay. And Isaiah Best house there is still considered a dwelling that I think individuals are staying in that house now. Okay. Alright well thank you.	17:18
Speaker 9	[indistinct 00:17:30]	17:28
Speaker 11	Okay, we'll talk about it. So [indistinct 00:17:33]	17:28
Speaker 9	Mhmm	17:28
Speaker 11	But you say you went to church—went to school and the church.	17:35
Speaker 9	Sure, I—and the church.	17:37
Speaker 11	Okay. And then they build the school after that?	17:38
Speaker 9	They built it while we was going to school in there.	17:45
Speaker 11	Okay. So they built the school while you was going to the school in the church building.	17:48
Interviewer 2	Okay. Do you recollect having a recollection of the year that the old Pleasant Hill school was built?	17:48
Speaker 9	[indistinct 00:17:56]	17:54
Interviewer 2	Okay. Was it perhaps, was it in the early 1900's?	17:56
Speaker 9	[indistinct 00:18:02] built there way down. One before then. [indistinct 00:18:21] We built this road from here to [indistinct 00:19:00] and built it from there to Jacksonville. [indistinct 00:19:23]	18:40
Interviewer 2	OKay. Let me ask you gentlemen, is that building still standing?	19:26
Speaker 9	Yeah, the old—	19:30
Speaker 8	Yes. Some of it is, when they remodeled it and kind of taking it in and part of it is [indistinct 00:19:43]	19:33
Interviewer 2	Okay. So that building on the other side of [indistinct 00:19:50] is the old Pleasant Hill school?	19:48
Speaker 8	Yep. Yeah, right.	19:56
Interviewer 2	Okay. We'll call that old Pleasant Hill school.	20:07
Speaker 8	[indistinct 00:20:08]	20:07
Interviewer 2	Okay. So Pleasant Hill Church was also used as a school?	20:13
Speaker 8	School too.	20:14
Interviewer 2	Okay. This is Pleasant Hill Church, the church that you gentlemen are talking about that says that it was over 80 something years old. [indistinct 00:20:30] historical landmark in the community.	20:20
Speaker 8	[indistinct 00:20:46]	20:39
Interviewer 2	Pleasant Hill Church. So you can see the church is still in great condition and they still have service here[indistinct 00:21:03] landmarks in the Pleasant View community. Also this is the church you gentlemen there are 2 gravesites in the back that they know of that's been here for years and just that the trees and everything in the back has grown up and around that—some area of the road that the gentlemen say leads back [indistinct 00:21:29] residence that you can see here, some graves right there that are still standing head stones.	20:49
Speaker 9	[indistinct 00:21:43]	21:39
Interviewer 2	As far as you know, how old—how long has this cemetery been in existence?	21:54
Speaker 9	Exactly.	21:58
Interviewer 2	Since how long?	22:00
Speaker 9	1867.	22:00
Interviewer 2	1867.	22:02
Speaker 9	[indistinct 00:22:07]	22:02
Interviewer 2	Okay. How many graves, that you know of, are in this area right here [indistinct 00:22:46]	22:42
Speaker 9	[indistinct 00:22:46]	22:46
Interviewer 2	And these 35 people in this gravesite.	22:46
Speaker 9	[indistinct 00:23:09] because there were dead people.	23:08
Interviewer 2	Okay. So your dad helped you where the pond is? The graves up to where the pond is?	23:15
Speaker 9	[indistinct 00:23:25]	23:20
Speaker 8	This is a gravesite I do not think that was put on a map as far as—it might be disturbed by the bypass coming through here and he said there was about at least 35 people in this site and it's cleared, and as you walk through you'll see little headstones, little pieces. He said there was other gravesites here that was only marked by wooden crosses, which are probably decayed by now.	23:39
Speaker 9	[indistinct 00:24:06]	24:05
Interviewer 2	He said this gravesite has been here since 1867. So this is also a historical grave site in the Pleasant Hill community.	24:05
Speaker 12	Yes sir.	24:40
Interviewer 2	There is a couple areas that I saw are caved in. You can tell that they're probably grave sites. As you can see there is a little plaque right there where someone's buried. In this area you see some sunken in areas where there's possibly graves at that has no—Significance of this grave site at Mr Michael Dillahunt's residence is because according to create a bypass coming in it would directly effect this property which would effect his home, his livestock which he has, and also this grave site which is—he says houses over 35 people. That some of the markings, because of people who were slaves and could not buy headstones, anything to signify where the graves are that they—But he knows from his father, Mr [indistinct 00:25:42] that there are at least 35 people here and his father told him never to plant anything here or grow anything here because he would be digging up graves and as you can see he has his livestock on the other side of this area and the pond. He has a field here he uses for corn and tobacco but he does not not have anything here at this grave site to keep—	24:51
Interviewer 2	OKay. We're also looking at another homestead that's up here on highway 55 that may be effected by the bypass, it's called the Stanley's homestead. It's a little house as you see it's still standing. So it's a real old house it's one that has historical significance also in the Pleasant Hill Community and probably be effected by the bypass coming through. So, there are some homes in this community that have historical value and significant impact to the community and should be—	26:10
Jesse Best	[indistinct 00:26:55]	26:54
Interviewer 2	We're now at another cemetery on highway 55 west. This is the Best Cemetery and were now talking to Mr. Jesse Best and Mr. Best, can you tell us basically how long this cemetery has been here and who—and it's significance.	26:54
Jesse Best	Yes. I'll give you the best of my knowledge. It's been here over 100 years.	27:14
Interviewer 2	Okay.	27:15
Jesse Best	Over 100 years.	27:15
Interviewer 2	Okay. And you say you got, your grandparents are buried back here?	27:21
Jesse Best	My grandparents buried right back there, my aunt buried back there and that's her husband Paul right there [indistinct 00:27:42] this is my granddaddy, he died in 1936, he's there. This is a good cemetery.	27:27
Interviewer 2	Mr. Best, do you know of anything here, your grandparents or anyone else talk about other graves being back here for years back that maybe the markingsh have disappeared or anything else?	28:21
Jesse Best	Well, yes. There is someone buried back here in my day that I do know, man name of [indistinct 00:28:43] he was buried back here.	28:33
Interviewer 2	Okay.	28:45
Jesse Best	And some more were buried back here that I can recall by being a little boy.	28:57
Interviewer 2	Okay.	28:57
Jesse Best	[indistinct 00:28:58]	28:57
Interviewer 2	Okay. Now, of something significant to let you know is that Mr. Jesse Best is over 80 years old and he said this cemetery has been back here since he's been knowing about it and that's why he states it's over 100 years old and he was just telling us that he had heard that other people were buried back here even before he knew his grandparents were buried back here.	28:58
Jesse Best	Right, right.	29:20
Interviewer 2	Okay.	29:21
Jesse Best	That's right.	29:21
Interviewer 2	Okay. We're gonna be showing some of the site [indistinct 00:29:25]	29:22
Jesse Best	Over 100 years old.	29:24
Interviewer 2	Okay. And he just said that this graveyard here is over 100 years old and right across from here is another gravesite. Mr. Best can you tell us something about this gravesite over here?	29:30
Jesse Best	Yeah. That [indistinct 00:29:47]	29:47
Interviewer 2	Okay. It's another gravesite that we're looking at and I think on—	29:49
Jesse Best	And some of the old ones buried back here are gone now. [indistinct 00:29:55]	29:52
Interviewer 2	Yeah. So here's another cemetery that's seperate from the Best cemetary right in the field across from him and he said this is [indistinct 00:30:20] This has been here just as long as the Best cemetery.	29:54
Jesse Best	Right.[indistinct 00:30:41] buried back over there.	30:40
Interviewer 2	[indistinct 00:30:46] Okay I understand right here has kind of grown up is considered the Jones cemetery. Yeah.	30:51
Jesse Best	Yeah, way back there. We can see it all.	31:12
Interviewer 2	[indistinct 00:31:14] Also there's other graves back here—You said that tree just swung back in the field?	31:14
Jesse Best	Huh?	31:26
Interviewer 2	That's the tree that swung back in the field?	31:27
Jesse Best	No, I'm talking about that tree, that tree right there. That's where my granddaddy's at.	31:30
Interviewer 2	Okay. So here's another grave that's here that's probably not even marked now. But you can tell the mark is under—that people were buried back in this cemetery.	31:32
Jesse Best	Right.[indistinct 00:31:41]	31:40
Interviewer 2	So basically there's one area you got about 5 different families buried in this area?	31:49
Jesse Best	You right.	32:01
Interviewer 2	5 different families buried back here in this area. And you'll tell from conversation with him that you can see it's kind of grown up around but as you can see in the bushes there and more cemeteries. Here there's headstones and gravesites in this area. This is behind Mr. Jesse Best house in the next field across from his family's cemetery. [indistinct 00:32:30] there's about 5 different families buried.	32:01
Interviewer 2	OK. We are now looking at Isaiah Best homestead and as you can see it's still standing in good condition and there is still a residence that people stay in. This house is over 80 something years old, it's still standing and people still dwell in and it is a significant historical interest and you can see from the unique view of the house, from the way it's built, it is a uniquely styled house that's built and has an outdoor compartment installed to keep [indistinct 00:33:20] And this is also the-Isaiah Best he still has pictures of another old family homestead, it's like there's 2 of these houses also been here for a significant period of years, they're still standing. Next door, just to include something else, there's a couple homes I think [indistinct 00:33:50] 15, 35,000 if you see there is a nice brick home right next to it then I'm pretty sure one is over 35,000.	32:37
Interviewer 2	But this house here is over 80 something years old and you can tell from the unique build of this home, that it is a historical house and the driveway is brick and my understanding is, one of the stories I first heard, that this house was one of the old, old houses but it's not the oldest house that's left remaining in the Pleasant Hill community. There's one, the first one's that was built in this community. Is that a correct statement Mr. Best?	34:06
Jesse Best	[indistinct 00:34:42]	34:37
Interviewer 2	Okay. So, it's the oldest house that's standing at this time?	34:44
Jesse Best	Yeah. Except for [indistinct 00:34:48]	34:47
Interviewer 2	Okay. Tell me a little bit about this house right next door. Is this also an old house?	34:56
Jesse Best	[indistinct 00:35:01]	35:00
Interviewer 2	So this house is basically 40 some years old. Okay. And this is just before you get to [indistinct 00:35:27] about 1/4 mile, less than a 1/4 mile away from here that his house is located.	35:13
Jesse Best	[indistinct 00:35:39]	35:36
Interviewer 2	Born around 1900. As you can see we're at another site, residence. This is another old homestead we're looking at this, on highway 55. This is basically , probably a quarter mile from [indistinct 00:36:28] family was born and raised in this house. This house is over 100 years old, so this is another house in the Pleasant Hill community that is of historical significance and no one at present time is dwelling in this home, but it is one that is still standing and could be listed as a historical site in Pleasant Hill community. And as you can see the individuals are very concerned about grave sites being moved, about historical dwellings in their community being torn down by the bypass and as you can see, according to the video [indistinct 00:37:10] showing this afternoon there's evidence to show there are quite a few more grave sites in this community then was listed and they'd be disturbed by the bypass coming through this community. Thank you.	35:57

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Pleasant Hill Church group interview recording, circa 1993-1997

Date:

1993 to 1997

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Pleasant Hill

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Interviewee residence: James City (N.C.)

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Behind the Veil: Documenting African American Life in the Jim Crow South interviews, photographs, and project records, circa 1864-2011, bulk 1990-1999

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Pleasant Hill Church group interview recording, circa 1993-1997

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