The Pacific Mills company kept up their employees’ houses, the streets and the back alleys. The back alleys were dirt, so crews from the plant would bring dump-trucks of cinders, from the burnt coal at the boiler room, and spread them up and down the back alleys to keep them from getting too muddy. The houses were finished, on the outside, with high quality cypress wood for the underpinning. In the late 1940’s the company had all this lattice-work taken out and put brick underpinning in it’s place, this made the houses a lot nicer. The houses were four, five and six room houses with modern designs. Pacific Mills broke from the usual, salt- box style house design, that’s in most cotton mill villages. When the village of Lyman was built, it was a showcase for cotton mill villages. Ridge Road was set aside for the executive staff of the company. The houses there were made out of the same materials as the other houses, but they were larger and of nicer designs.