Riley House -- a handsome two story wood house -- sits in the same neighborhood as the older well-kept plantation homes.
Someone else might tell you something, but your primary source is much better.
Riley Research Center and Museum, she transformed the building into a place where people can learn about Smokey Hollow.
Then we say to the children, well, where are we? Um, they had a Woodyard and I say all that to say that it was a pretty much self sustaining community.
With most of Smokey Hollow already cleared out, in the 1970s, the city also had its sights on the Riley House itself.
There were lynchings close by because the jail was in Smokey Hollow, and they could it pass in there every day.