Mossville, LA
Mossville was founded by Jack Moss, an ex-slave, beginning in 1790. This was more than fifty years before the creation of Imperial Calcasieu Parish. Over the years the hamlet grew to more than 600 residents but was never incorporated. The main roads are the Old Spanish Trail (East Burton Street), Prater Road, and extends west to the Sulphur city limits and Evergreen Road.
The town was settled by former enslaved Africans who were granted the land through a "fee-simple title acquired by squatters rights." In this manner, anyone who agreed to improve the property while residing for a specified number of years could attain ownership.
After the Civil War, these individuals mostly from nearby farms, settled on the land and began growing crops and raising cattle.
The area remained rural until the early 1900s, when the Locke-Moore Company built a sawmill. Lumbering became the major industry and was later joined by sugar refinement.
The greatest period of growth occurred in the 1940s and 1950s, when petrochemical and industrial plants moved into the area. Today, these plants remain the primary source of employment for Mossville residents.
The massive Sasol chemical plant project is physically changing the Mossville landscape and geography. The town has almost no resemblance to what it looked liked before the chemical plant project.
Mossville Community Gallery
Concern Citizens of Mossville
Left: EPA Administrator Michael Regan
Center: Rosemary Enobakhare, Administrator Regan's Personal Assistant
Right: Karl Ray Prater, CCOM member
Timeline
August 30, 2023
Left to Right:
First Row: CCOM member McKeever Edwards, CCOM President Carolyn Peters, CCOM's Attorney Maryum Jordan, CCOM Adviser, Stafford Frank
Second Row: "Hold The Line," Film Producer, Andrew Bogrand,
(Preparing for the Film)
December 12, 2023
"Hold The Line," Film Premiere in Manhattan, New York
March 26, 2024
Washington, DC White House Entrance, leading to the President Dwight D. Eisenhower Room, where CCOM held their first Lobby for Mossville.
March 26, 2024
Washington DC White House Lobby that leads to the President Dwight D. Eisenhower Room, where CCOM Lobbied for Mossville.
April 12, 2024
"Hold The Line," Screening on Oak Park Boulevard in Lake Charles, Louisiana at The Golden Doors Event Center.
April 12, 2024
Second Photo of, "Hold The Line," Screening on Oak Park Boulevard in Lake Charles, Louisiana at The Golden Doors Event Center.
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