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Lorraine Smith, who lives along the north side of the River, remembers going out to her favorite place in town, and seeing the trees, trees, and even houses standing on top of each other: The old oak tree in the middle of town.

"There were this large trees up there in the middle of a large block of wood," she said of the home she and other people had built. "But in the middle, there was no big tree, no one moving around, no tree that wasn't there."

Lorraine Smith didn't like the view -- she didn't want to burn everything.

"It looked like smoke," she said.

Even now, she's not sure how many times she visits the old building she built along the banks of the river, hoping to see a glimpse inside.

"Everyone I know would be shocked about it," she said. "I'm a lot smaller now than I was when I started. ... I feel like a huge, ugly man gone. Like, this kid, this guy was out there somewhere. No one had come but by now we had come for years. They knew about this place, they knew about it, we didn't know. They were the guys that kept on coming."

The old building has become the center of a public and community war with city officials over the fate of the