Welcome to PRAIRIE VIEW: The small Texas town where a slave plantation turned into a HBCU

[@MrMack65]

I grew up in Hempstead; my mother took us to church in Prairie View; a Catholic parish called St. Martin de Porres. St. Martin, a Black man, was the first Catholic canonized a saint in the U.S. When we went to church there (Early 1970's) that Parish community was UNCOMMONLY integrated; Black, White, Hispanic. WONDERFUL PEOPLE! There were many college Faculty there. Very fond memories. St. Martin in PV was merged with St. Marys in Hempstead, and now is called St. Katherine Drexel. Thank you for the video.

[@Diva9000x]

Good video. One of my neighbors is a PV alum. He told me that Texas A&M didn't want Black students at "their" school so they built Prairie View A&M - the ole "separate but equal" BS. Texas A&M is less than 30 minutes down the road in College Station, TX.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Although I've never heard of this story, I'm not surprised by it...

[@Tredough3004]

​@@ThisSmallTownis same thing I'm saying

[@msroro3127]

@@ThisSmallTown, Great video.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Thank you MsRoro.

[@gabbielee1498]

This is a true story they acquired the land from mistress Kirby of Alta vista plantation.

[@Harvey_Clark_318]

My son is a student at Prairie View. The semester ended a week before Memorial Day, which is why the campus didn't have students walking around. Good video.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Thank you!

[@HighTopJop]

THAT Thumbnail!! My uncle Paye used to live in that duplex off Owens rd in the early 90's. I have so many pictures in front of it after church when i was a child. This algorithm is crazy!

[@ThisSmallTown]

LOL it's a small world isn't it and the algorithm keeps me up at night.😩

[@vinsonfamilycollectibles8213]

Love it and luv my HBCU's...JSU tiger here... I came out to visit Prairie View running track in the early 80's. Several of my HS classmates attended PV (out of Chicago). Go SWAC!!!!

[@ThisSmallTown]

Thanks!

[@macman1942]

I'm a JSU alumni also that now live in Texas

[@andrebaker-z9m]

Can you give me the address of that multi unit?

[@ThisSmallTown]

Near 100-710 Hargest St, Prairie View, TX 77445

[@Muffiebell]

I grew up in Prairie View, and I can attest that there is so much more history to this city as well as the community itself. Every year, the day after Christmas, those of us that grew up here get together to rekindle our love and bond that we have for our dear city.

[@ThisSmallTown]

I definitely agree there is so much more history in PV, but there's only so much I can cover within 2 hours of filming to create a 20 minute video. Also, I have got some criticism about the houses that I showed in this video, however I showed the neighborhoods that directly surround the university, which are the homes of the original part of prairie view.

[@Muffiebell]

@@ThisSmallTown actually there are other neighborhoods off of University Drive but I understand the time constraints. I’ve forwarded this video to some of my fellow home grown PVites.

[@tinadarealmilliondollarbaby]

My alumni, the good ole days. PV tore down dorms in the early 2000's and built apt buildings for student housing.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Ahhh that makes sense and probably a better option.

[@AndrewGodwin-oj3kf]

PV is a Beautiful Campus, amazing farm research facilities, great professors, and a good student/teacher ratio. Loved my year @ PVAMU, Covid came and everything went online. It was good classes, but you gotta be on campus, enjoy the people and experience. Miss you PV!

[@JohnMoore-rv4zm]

When I was in the army in Korea, I served under one of the very best bosses I had in my whole career. His name was Major Billy Deramos, a proud graduate of PVA&M.

[@marquisechristian5089]

Waller county where Sister Bland was unalieved 🤲🏾🙏🏿

[@marktwain1466]

Ain't that crazy?? 😢

[@Babyshoes777]

She had just driven off campus 😰

[@williamP1972]

She was already on the way out.. just sayin..

[@txlaw2832]

​@@williamP1972 Elaborate

[@BirdDogey1]

A friend of mine served on the Sacramento Historic Commission. The city was tearing up a street and discovered a paupers' cemetery. Essentially a mass grave without headstones for the poor. The city paved it back over leaving those at rest. So much sadness in history.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Wow, I didn't know that.

[@keithrawls5458]

When me and my girlfriend (now wife) graduated from (Houston) Kashmere High School in 1977, we both got ROTC Scholarships at PVAMU. She lived in Drew Hall Freshman Women's dorm on one side of the campus and I lived in Holly Hall Freshman Men's dorm on the other side of the campus near Alexander Hall for Athletes. We ate our meals together in Alumni Hall. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since those days. A career in the Marine Corps as a Commissioned Officer for me and a Career as an RN, two Children and two Grandchildren later...by the grace of God we are still together. There were some precious memories made there.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Amen and great story Keith. Thanks for sharing!

[@janiceschwab4321]

I agree with the renovation with the houses. The University is very nice looking. Also their marching band is amazing!!

[@dubble0sev]

Im in PV. Bruh didnt hardly drive thru any of the town. He drove 2 blocks right next to the campus and missed 90 percent of the town. Come back, do it again, and actually go across the street. Precite the look tho.

[@ThisSmallTown]

I got you Dubb.

[@texastrina6026]

And the railroad tracks....

[@triciabledsoe7407]

From someone that grew up in Prairie View there are lots of abandoned because the owners are either dead or their families have moved. So the property has been left to ruin. Graduation is on Mother’s Day every year for a long long time. And the city was started by 4 families that farmed the land on the plantation. There are very few families that still live there.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Yeah, when someone suggested to me to do an episode covering prairie view, my response was, there's a town there? All I ever known was about the campus and never really paid attention to the neighborhoods and people that surround the campus.

[@triciabledsoe7407]

@@ThisSmallTown I will have to continue to watch to see if you went to the neighborhood that I grew up in. Not Alta Vista but Wyatt Chapel

[@1962JULY]

Thanks for sharing! I'm a BROOKLYN Born and Raised New Yorker residing in the D/M/V for the past 40 years. Love viewing these places I'll probably never visit in my life. But the cost of living in some of these towns in Texas is very tempting when I'm very close to retiring. I do know that I would miss the four(4) seasons living in Texas. Also, can't stand the hot weather, LOL!

[@ThisSmallTown]

You could come down to Texas and live like a king with our cost of living compared to New York, BUT the heat...the heat will have you missing NY about 6 months out of the year because bwe have only 2 seasons. Sumner ane, OMG it's so Hot the rest of the year

[@MichaelJohnson-cz6kc]

Yeah. I relocated from the CHI (Chicago) to a master-planned subdivision called Sienna (SW of Houston) about 6 mos ago…total weather shock…too hot to handle! 🔥🔥🔥

[@ThisSmallTown]

And you never get use to the heat.😩

[@pierrerochon7271]

HBCU ALUM here- Grambling, Southern, and Howard - wonderful journey to my law degree- Best decisions in my life- taught me how to become a scholar- and a better person- HBCU FOREVER!!

[@ThisSmallTown]

CONGRATS on that Pierrerochan!

[@terriray5993]

I'm a PVU graduate 1983 then got kinder endorsement then got Masters in Mid management 1990. Love my PVU

[@iminra6]

Just discovered your channel,that was a wonderful walkthrough of Prarieview A&M. I felt sad that the township look so letdown and downtrodden in some ways. I feel for those who were enslaved when you visited the burial land. You felt their presence. I’m sure they appreciated u paying homage.

[@ThisSmallTown]

I appreciate your feedback. Thank you for watching Iminra6.

[@moblack5883]

PV just the college campus could be a 10 part series. Took my daughter to visit last week. She woke up and was in awww at what she saw on campus. I want to take her back when campus is in full swing.

[@ThisSmallTown]

I remember checking out the campus for the first time years ago and felt the black spirit emanating from everywhere.

[@moblack5883]

@@ThisSmallTown that’s exactly what my daughter said. We had just left A&M campus too.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Yeah, it gives off of feeling like you just belong. A&M is a amazing school as well, but the demographics as y'all know are going to be a lot different. I think it really comes down to what she's going to school for as far as a major and who offers the best program for that.

[@AngieZiglar]

I grew up in Hempstead Texas right next to here i worked a round there i think there are a lot of good people that live there.

[@ThisSmallTown]

No doubt

[@JustFluffyQuiltingYarnCrafts]

Very interesting. I went there once and was wondering where the grocery stores and restaurants were. Thank you. The drone footage in the outro…👍👍

[@chick-fil-agal2264]

Boy of boy, in the 90's going to PVU, was the day n lit asf, yes i enjoyed now passing it on to the kiddos,education that is😂🎉

[@ThisSmallTown]

90s PV was built different.😂

[@willielittle9301]

What people fail to realize about the PVAMU football program is that it is one of the most successful and storied programs and winningest programs under legendary coach William "Billy" Nicks in the SWAC and HBCU sports...It produced some of the greatest players of the AFL/NFL such as...Ken Houston...James Kearney...Otis Taylor...Unfortunately...this important detail gets lost because of the "administration" corruption of the late 1980s which led to the loss of athletic football scholarships and the temporary suspension of the football program...PVAMU football is now back and have been consistently successful since 2008 football season and it will be one of the favorites to win SWAC in 2024...

[@G_Boom]

Just ran across your video and was looking to see what you were going to say. You actually missed over half the town. Since you concentrated on the area adjacent to the campus. If you would have gone left off of US 290 down to Business 290, you would have come across more of the city. You could have seen city hall, the police dept, the PVAMU National Alumni Bldg, the fire dept, more small businesses and more neighborhoods. Also, that slave cemetery is very erie. You can almost feel the souls around you. Just south of where you were is a path that will lead you to a lot of the grave stones. If you continued further north on that road you will also see the local cemetery. I did love your drone shots you took while there that gave a good overview of the area you was in. It would have been nice to the historical marker of where Sandra Bland was pulled over prior to being arrested and before she hung herself in the county jail. There is also a post office and Waller County Community Center next to each other on FM 1098.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Thank for the info G Boom. I actually stopped by half of the places you mentioned, but was limited in time and didn't want to make the video too long. I shot this about 3-4 weeks ago, so I have got a lot better with my research and showcasing more of the town'e history. Hopefully you'll be able to see that in my newer episodes. Thanks for all the feedback!

[@G_Boom]

@@ThisSmallTown I have started to watch some of your other videos and have subscribed to your channel.

[@rhondacruse309]

​@@ThisSmallTownCan't wait to see the rest of the town 😊

[@tellis905]

Howdy Alumni Terry Ellis! Proud PVU Graduate.

[@djsankofa]

EN VOGUE! 🙂

[@ThisSmallTown]

Wait wait wait, hold up. Terry Ellis Terry Ellis from En Vogue?!?!🤯

[@tlm8340]

HEY! Terry loved your singing with the band❤ who knew you'd become a 🌟 WeDid!

[@donaldwaddleton8633]

@@tellis905 Hello Terry Ellis..proud of you and everything Our Father God Yahweh has blessed you with....

[@OhSoLanea]

Alumna here, class of 2012 & 2017 💜💛

[@ladyblackbgb]

I went to PV in the 90s. I remember the losing streak, and that graveyard that a group of us went to visit on Halloween night, and got scared off by a sudden bright light. I screamed so loud the police came and said my scream carried across the whole campus. 😂😂😂😂

[@ThisSmallTown]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Icecreamman007]

So all of us tried exploring that cemetery and got spooked off 😂😳 haven’t been back since freshman year

[@dianemasterson2132]

Very beautiful video. Thanks man!

[@679corvette]

My Mom and Dad first saw each other there shortly after WWII

[@ThisSmallTown]

Oh, wow!

[@NaturalJoy50]

The rent is for a student renting a room in a 2 to 4 bedroom house. That price is not for a single family home.

[@Johanna-pg1vp]

I graduated from PV. The reason the city of PV average income was like 16000$ is because most of the people are students. Most of the students are full time students.

[@sellis2981]

Hey yall from alumni Sheila E, brings back memories

[@tashajeffery4684]

I am from Hockley texas just 12 minutes from pv, my aunt use to work in Pv helping students with financial aid, Mrs Brenda Reese!!!❤❤

[@matthewgibson7930]

Thank you for doing this video

[@ThisSmallTown]

You're welcome and thanks for watching. 😎

[@robertintexas]

Informative video as usual, Raynell.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Thanks Robert, but who's Raynell?🤔😂 Spell check gets them every time. *Ranell

[@robertintexas]

@@ThisSmallTown My apologies.

[@marklawrence76]

I'm a Grambling State University alum and Grambling, Louisiana is a city and a university

[@ThisSmallTown]

Great football team out there.

[@marklawrence76]

@@ThisSmallTown yeah they descent I used to love when we played Prairie View at the Texas Bowl

[@ThisSmallTown]

Wait, I think it's your band is what the school is really known for.🤔

[@marklawrence76]

@@ThisSmallTown touche 😅😂🤣😂😅 SWAC is in the building

[@edmondlau511]

Driven past Grambling multiple times on my drives from El Paso to Tampa journeys but never stopped there. Will have to one day and see what it’s like.

[@neketiabuckley5785]

The whole town look plantationish while driving in the beginning looked like you were driving up to one lol. Thank you always wondered about that place

[@ThisSmallTown]

PV definitely has a feel to it.

[@neketiabuckley5785]

@@ThisSmallTown interesting

[@vontesantos5981]

​@@neketiabuckley5785that's what it was built on a plantation lol

[@MattFuller-fu1ox]

2011 PVAMU Alumni Best Times Of My Life Were spent in this town

[@jimmiemark2135]

Visited the University back in the day and have had friends and family graduate from there.

[@bradg2559]

There's a Starbucks being built on the corner right on the opposite side of 290.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Well it's about time, because I know UT and A&M had a Starbucks since inception. 😂

[@jeremiahanthony5521]

I love my school 💜💛. Proud PVAMU ALUMNUS . Class of 2024 !!!

[@Topsyturvy-om7jn]

Proud alumna 💜💛💜💛💜💛

[@ThisSmallTown]

Nice! What was your major?

[@texastrina6026]

Imagine being part of the group who discovered the graveyard--overgrown with trees and vegetation. And you stumble on a headstone that says "Here lies Old Joe" Along with others and wooden crosses. The sad part is they cleared the land and took up most of those headstones and crosses....

[@ThisSmallTown]

People keep telling me I should have kept walking to see headstones, but I walked a decent ways back and didn't see anything. When I was flying my drone I flew way back there too and didn't see anything.

[@texastrina6026]

@@ThisSmallTown Yep, because they removed them before I left in 2004

[@Icecreamman007]

@@texastrina6026that’s odd to remove such a significant portion of the campuses history and not to mention a little disrespectful to the lost souls

[@ThisSmallTown]

What did I not mention that was disrespectful to the history?

[@Icecreamman007]

@@ThisSmallTown not you, they mentioned above in the comment that the university or county removed the headstones from the slave cemetery.

[@gooserich3970]

It’s a bbq place inside a Shell Gas station in Waller county before you make it to the college that is 🔥!!!

[@donaldbolden7353]

It’s called Waller Countyline BBQ hands down best chopped beef baked potatoes they changed the gas station to a Exxon

[@vontesantos5981]

They been fell off hard that got better bbq in Hempstead lol

[@djsankofa]

Come visit Prairie View during homecoming October 26, 2024.

[@ThisSmallTown]

I don't think I'm ready for that smoke. 😂😂😂

[@madmarx1983]

I used to live on (what is now) Sandra Bland Pkwy.

[@lindacarroll6896]

I am not sure if it works the same way in Prairie View, but at College Station many parents buy a house for their student and rent rooms to friends. When they sell it they may not be expecting great profits. You kept talking about how everything was occupied by students, then were surprised at the low household income. Can't have it both ways. Some of those homes are probably occupied by faculty and staff, but we know their pay is not going to be high either.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Well the confusion lies between the town having one of the biggest HBCUs in the country and still having such a high poverty rate and now household income. So, it makes me believe the census isn't really including the students information. Also, I know most students who graduate from PV don't stay and settle in the town.

[@lindacarroll6896]

@@ThisSmallTown According to the census taker rules for 2020, college students had to list their college residence as their residence because they spent the most time living there and not with their parents. In previous censuses parents listed their college students as living with them and sometiimes the students listed their college residence, so they got counted twice. In 2020, the census takers were instructed to list the students at the place they were living on March 15. And most likely, when you went through in May, the semester was over and a lot of the students were not in residence. As for household income, they were counting households where the student might not be working, so didn't have any income to report. Even if they were working, it might be part-time or minimum wage. When you average nothing with medium income it brings the average down. You didn't really take into consideration faculty and staff.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Then if that's the case, there's no telling what the true numbers are for the town of prairie view itself. Thanks for the feedback. Great information!

[@t4texastom587]

My Dad trained racehorses back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Prairie View A&M used to have a veterinarian by the last name of Poindexter, and my Dad would take whatever was sick, horse, cow, dog, or cat to Dr. Poindexter. My Dad liked the Doc because he was a good honest vet, plus it didn't cost an arm and a leg to pay for the vet bill. Dr. Poindexter knew his business. I don't know if the Doc is still alive or not. He is/was a good man.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Great story. Thanks for sharin!. 😃

[@ityou5874]

I attended college there.

[@morelife6508]

Waller county is quickly turning into an extension of Cypress/Bridgeland. Ill call it now... In the next 10yrs homes will span all the way from 99 all the way west to the 290/HI6 connector. Traffic on 290w from Cypress into PV is already getting heavier and heavier each month.

[@wcfenderson5609]

By the time Memorial Weekend starts, school is already out , until summer session starts at most HBCU school, if not all.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Yeah I figured. I actually prefer the campus to be vacant, because it makes it a lot easier to film.

[@wcfenderson5609]

@@ThisSmallTown I also saw those fixer uppers, but wondered if it’s worth it in a small college town, by keeping it steadily occupied. First thought is why isn’t it not occupied, and is it sustainable.

[@ThisSmallTown]

There's school sessions going on lately 365. Now you would have competition with the new apartments, but if remodeled those units in my video and make them nice and affordable, I can't imagine not keeping it leased throughout the entire year. I say this because I saw a lot of college kids entering and leaving homes that looked damn near abandoned and rundown.

[@reggierobinson5934]

I went to pv college for anout 2 yrs. I should have stayed in college.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Never too late to go back Reggie. I'm headed back this fall at the age of 43. 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@rosecityremodel2015]

I gained both my undergrad and grad degrees after the age of 40. Go back

[@wendycooper1255]

My great grand ma attended there.

[@phyllisdarden1444]

The city is far more than what you described. Did you visit Alta Vista subdivision? Did you visit any subdivision beyond Owens Road? Did you go across the tracks or down 290 Business? There are other subdivisions. The farm is owned by the university and includes a meat processing plant where the community can purchase the exceptional beef and goat cuts. No history provided regarding the relationship between the city and university and alumni who became mayors or students elected to the city council. You visited on a holiday weekend and spoke with no one. Long time residents could have provided you with so much history. Those who attended high school on the campus and lived on the campus as children. So much missed.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Understandable Phyllis, but my channel isn't about the people who live in it. It's about the features of the town. Also, there's only so much you can put into a 20 minute video.

[@phyllisdarden1444]

@ThisSmallTown You didn't feature the town. You featured a segment of the town .... homes that need to be renovated or repaired. You gave an unbalanced view of the city when you chose not go further.

[@ThisSmallTown]

I showed exactly what's around that university that you can go look at today for yourself. I can't make up what's actually there. So when I pulled off from the university I showed the closest neighborhoods directly north, east, south, and west of it. If you don't like what you saw, that's not a representation of my video, but rather the city.

[@phyllisdarden1444]

@ThisSmallTown Was your focus on the university or the town? If it's the university, the ranch is part of the university - you didn't know that, but research would have told you that. You assumed it was "private property." If the focus was the city, Alta Vista subdivision is about 200 feet south of Hope AME on the right. Had you driven through there, you would have seen an entire neighborhood of inhabited homes built in the 70s. Did I miss a comment in the video about the bowling center, Checkers, the post office, community center, the dollar store, and city hall? Did I miss mention of the elementary school across from the bowling center? Anyone who doesn't know the area would think that outside of the university, the city consists of nothing but dilapidated houses. Had you driven across the tracks, 3-4 miles, you would have happened on another subdivision. If you had turned right at Business 290, you would have come across another subdivision. I ran a quick real estate search for the area, I found 36 properties on the market - none of the houses were like the ones you showed unless I just didn't see those in your video. It's your video, but in my opinion, it does a disservice to the city of Prairie View. I watched your Hempstead and Waller videos. Very different... and you showed very little of the areas that are not as pretty, picturesque, or old western town. I kept waiting on a view of the "hanging tree" in Hempstead. www.movoto.com/prairie-view-tx/?adid=&campaignid=19976555735&adgroupid=&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAr7C6BhDRARIsAOUKifhCp8e2jxrMHbjl5s8DOEH-KTEVxHb3jSEqRWyogfFZg7ampALbSyAaAkl6EALw_wcB

[@phyllisdarden1444]

@@ThisSmallTown As far as going to look at the area myself, I'm there 5-6 days each week.

[@jameskarins1717]

Hey just subbed. I love the name of the channel😊

[@ThisSmallTown]

Thanks James and welcome to my small town community. 😎

[@dirtydirty5857]

Texas@&m system wowwww ,,,thats wilddd never knew that

[@luismadrigal6409]

I remember road trips when we'd drive through Prairie View on our way back to Houston. We'd stop in Hempstead and buy from the farmers market. My dad used to take Hempstead Highway, Business 290. Still today I enjoy taking that road until it forces us to get on 290. I wish they'd stop building homes out there, leave the country alone!

[@TheSapphireSprit]

I live in College Station I pretty much figured that PV was to separate. A&M had gates at all points of entry, hence North Gate, South Gate, rumor is that those gates were to keep those sweet corp boys from going to the evil city of Bryan where there were bars and loose women. I can only imagine the kerfluffle if someone from a different race would have come near them.

[@maureencora1]

I Love My HBCUs, 2024 Prairie View A&M University / Panther-Paradise, TEXAS. New Wakanda, USA (smile)

[@AngieZiglar]

That Land was given to the slaves when they were set Free

[@AngieZiglar]

That's wear i went to the hospital back in the early 70s to see a Doctor named Owens

[@simonliserio6809]

Have you been in south texas and and victoria texas

[@ThisSmallTown]

Yes, but not to film.

[@simonliserio6809]

Ok " ➡️🤠

[@beaux_man]

Are you sure that the student population is included in the town population? Lastly, most semesters end early May so it being quiet on Memorial Day weekend is probably because the students are gone.

[@twistedconversations782]

That animation made it seem like a short trip 😂😂

[@ThisSmallTown]

My gas tank disagrees. 😂😂😂

[@16zips-HTX]

Again sir you have done an outstanding video here. Thank you for your time and work you have put into these videos. Did you go further into the back of the cemetery, where you can see a few of the headstones? This exact spot in PV I've spent countless hours here, Its close to where i live, and the history of this area if fascinating. Alta vista the actual plantation home of Jared Kirby, was donated to the state i believe by Jared Kirby's wife. Who left Alta Vista Plantation for Austin Texas shortly after the death of her husband. I may be mistaken, but i believe the "slave" cemetery was used for both plantations in the area General Jared Kirby's Alta Vista at P.V. And the bigger one Leonard Waller Groce's Liendo Plantation, witch is still occupied and in use a few miles down the road. Random fact, during the first year students had classes and or lived inside the Alta Vista plantation home of the Kirby's. There were only a handful of students that first year, six perhaps. I dig your videos sir thank you.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Thanks for all the great additional info! No, I went half way back on the land, but didn't see any headstones unfortunately.

[@moblack5883]

Most of my family graduated from there.

[@ThisSmallTown]

It's a beautiful campus. I know a lot of people who went there for the nursing program.

[@JohnnieWhite-w1d]

Your video was incomplete and did not adequately reflect the city of Prairie View or PVAMU. Communities comprised of graduates and lifetime residents living in nice homes, not dilapidated ones, throughout the city of Prairie View were not highlighted. From the beginning to end of your video, your comments over-generalized the negative aspects of life in Prairie View. In the future, I suggest you do prior research of the cities/universities you will be visiting and highlighting. PV Grad 1983-BSEE

[@ThisSmallTown]

Thanks for the feedback Johnnie.

[@ashleyking]

It Prairie View the students were up all night studying.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Well, it doesn't look like there's anything out there to do, so I do believe this to be true. 🤔🤷🏾‍♂️

[@kathleenmartin7498]

Rental statistics don't include college dorms. Any college town also has a ton of residents besides just students.

[@edwardkeaton4972]

My daughter is a student at PV and I see it in a more positive lite than what's being portrayed I'm actually disappointed in this.

[@ThisSmallTown]

In what way are you disappointed?

[@Scrapamilla]

Prairie View MADE

[@godsanointed2341]

My granddaughter goes to Prairie View. She commutes from home. Semester is over.

[@simplelightmedia]

It’s a college town with very little for the Students near the campus to do. No grocery stores and very little food options. No shopping centers etc. he missed so much of PV though.

[@ThisSmallTown]

How you say there's very little of everything, but then I said I missed so much? 😂🤷🏾‍♂️

[@donaldwaddleton8633]

PVU. Classs of 1992.....

[@dcbornrob]

Great video bro

[@ThisSmallTown]

I appreciate it Dcbornrob.

[@DarrylWillis-x7b]

My daughter goes there we were saying the same things about FLIPPING some of those houses on the Main Strip, maybe making SORORITY HOMES too

[@ThisSmallTown]

I really don't understand how no one has got on this yet unless the property owner refuses to sell.

[@jasonElliott-ms9ys]

What's good man. What happen to fishing trips?? Did you flip the canoe😂 jk didn't know you had another channel💪👍

[@ThisSmallTown]

LOL I'm avoiding the heat like a cousin who owes you money. Once temps dropped down to the '70s, I'll be fishing again. 😂

[@terriray5993]

My mother had a friend an husband who lived in their home up the main stretch to PVU but that was when I was in college. Possible their deseased

[@beaux_man]

I realized that college students were included in the census hence the low household income. Student loans and parents money. They aren't poor!! Lol

[@ThisSmallTown]

Correct, the students information being included in the data does make it almost impossible to know how the town is doing outside of the University.

[@ravengameslife9071]

Nice quiet town

[@hausofcrenshaw1686]

PV Alum ❤

[@dianemasterson2132]

Waller County is historically black. Land grants. Agriculture.

[@richardcogbill6791]

Nothing in the Houston area for $150K.

[@NaturalJoy50]

Come visit us at Prairie View Church of Christ!

[@GoofyFlan]

Prairie View is the place to send your kid if you want them to just study and stay out of trouble. They dress up and go to Buc-ee's for entertainment out there. ~~I love these videos and history lessons~~

[@ThisSmallTown]

Yeah, there's not much out there in PV that can get college kids in trouble. 😂

[@Tredough3004]

The town is like one street

[@ThisSmallTown]

I don't know Tred. Per some comments I'm seeing, I may have missed a few streets in PV. 😩😂🤷🏾‍♂️

[@marktwain1466]

I want to add, it GOTTA be creepy walking that place, knowing black souls sleep underneath 😢

[@ThisSmallTown]

Very...

[@lrb3989]

In most if not all your small towns you visit you give the crime statistics. Is there a reason you didn’t list it for this area ???

[@ThisSmallTown]

That's a really great question and observation. The prairie view episode was only the second video I ever uploaded to this channel since I started it this summer, so by this point I wasn't posting all the stats that you see in my later videos.

[@dianemasterson2132]

I think Waller County is the lowest lying County in the state, so it floods. They got Sulzer Pumps out there, used to be Johnson Pumps. I worked there.

[@MrONELAST8]

How can they afford anything after paying 845.00 in rent on16,000 income certainly not a 250,000 house. I am living on 1,800 a month Social Security, my rent is 845 a month so I know what the dead broke and homeless line looks like. The stats just don't seem to match up to what a poverty area generally looks like and to work at the collage requires at least a high school diploma.

[@ThisSmallTown]

I believe from the numbers are being manipulated because they include the college students as well in the town.

[@djsankofa]

@@ThisSmallTown I think this is due to a number of international students who come to stay in Prairie View for an extended period of time as they work on their undergraduate and graduate studies.

[@Donnie75]

I didn't know

[@ausarjamion]

What do you mean by, " The Dallas Cowboys of football teams. " THIS OUR YEAR!!!!!

[@ThisSmallTown]

Keep hope alive.😂😭😂😭

[@jaisonlives]

You really should have gotten with someone from PV because you’re giving bad information. Nobody’s im school Memorial Day weekend. Spring semester ends the first week of May smh. People actually live in PV. It’s not all college students.

[@ThisSmallTown]

I'm aware and this video was not solely based on the school nor the students. It's about the town of Prairie View. I even mentioned this in video.

[@oxtails1]

I wish you would show this to the city council as a presentation , to wake them up and push this town forward. So embarrassing especially next to a black university and a black town.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Yes, the town has plenty room for improvement, but if we were to look at the glass as half full, at less we can say the campus itself is beautiful.

[@texaschick6153]

They call it student housing instead of dorms now. Lol.

[@Mr.Rejuvenator]

Bro alot of that stuff you talking about renovating. They have to be torn down.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Those buildings in my video have been there for years in the recent same condition that you saw in my video. Renovations shouldn't take 10 to 15 days, fam.

[@ityou5874]

College adults not kids. College is for adults not kids.😊

[@ThisSmallTown]

I'm 43, so if you're half my age.... you're a kid in my eyes.😂

[@ityou5874]

@@ThisSmallTown I'm 54 I attended P.V. from 1988-1992.

[@ThisSmallTown]

Then you're what I call a O.G.

[@chimchim2_]

So this is why you weren't at the beach over the weekend 😒

[@ThisSmallTown]

The heat is more like it.😂😭😂

[@chimchim2_]

@@ThisSmallTown ok, decent point. Do more of these, please! I haven't gone thru your list of videos on this channel yet, but Galveston has a really rich history. From juneteeh, the storm of 1900, to military forts and bunkers still present on the island. Anyway, food for thought. I'll be hanging around for a bit 😏

[@ThisSmallTown]

Galveston is a little bit too big to make the cut to fit my niche of a small town with their population of about 53,000. All the towns I've covered have a population of about 10,000 or less with the exception of Katy at 25,000. Plus I'm noticing, the higher the population of the town that I cover, the worst the video preforms.

[@onedeeplive]

Sleep sheep still don’t get it.