We are right outside the the Lord's Town plant and there's a must be an old billboard.

It's just a blank wooden sign plywood.

It looks faded and weathered and somebody had written in black spray paint on the wood

save the GM plant.

And then at some point later somebody came and wrote in white spray paint on top of it,

just the letters RIP.

This is Lord's Town Ohio.

For more than 50 years it's shared a name with a General Motors assembly plant.

For the last decade that plant was home of the Chevy Cruise.

NBC News National Reporter Aaron Einhorn traveled from Detroit to this part of Ohio with producer

Claire Ty.

The Lord's Town assembly plant was once one of the largest automobile plants within General

Motors.

On March 6, 2019 the last shift of 1400 workers packed up their things and were forced

to move on.

Today GM Lord's Town is closed.

Over the years this region which is known as the Mahoning Valley has lost tens of thousands

of manufacturing jobs starting with the steel mills closed in the 70s and 80s.

But the GM plant had been a constant in an area that has dealt with change over and over

again.

And it's a region that over the last 50 years really built up around General Motors.

Everybody there knew somebody who worked in the plant.

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