Xiashulin New Village

The smaller, more remote part of Shulin New Village (樹林移民新村), which was bisected by the eventual development of the Guanyin Industrial Zone (觀音工業區). It was settled by 21 households displaced by the construction of Shimen Reservoir (石門水庫). Their farmland was expropriated as early as 1969 by the Forestry Bureau (林務局) for windbreak forest planting, well before the industrial zone proper was developed. The pollution that followed in later decades drove most remaining residents away. The relocated village earth god temple, Shanglin Temple (上林宮), was carried over from the reservoir flood zone and remains as a marker of the community’s upstream origins.