Mavericks iMessage restore messages

I just did a clean-installation of OSX Maverick's on my late-2009 iMac after installing a new SSD drive.  Everything works fine.  The only one problem I'm having is restoring my old iMessage chats.  In addition to Time Machine, I also manually backed-up the (360MB) ~/folder/messages directory.
When I start iMessages, none of the old chats display.  Only the chats that I've had since I re-installed OSX Mavericks.  Working on a theory, I wiped out the current ~/library/messages folder so it was completely empty.  When I started iMessage I expected nothing to appear in the window.  To my surprise, the "new" chats were still showing up even though the ~/library/messages folder is empty.
Has something changed in OSX Maverick's that it no longer writes to the ~/library/messages folder?  Does anyone know how I can located the new folder where messages are stored?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

You can only restore the whole message database, not individual messages or conversations. This procedure will replace the database with an earlier version, so you'll lose all later changes.
Quit Messages. Hold down the option key and select
Go ▹ Library
from the Finder menu bar. A folder window will open.
If you're running OS X 10.8, restore the subfolder named "Messages" from a backup that predates the unwanted changes, then log out and log back in.
If you're running OS X 10.9 or later, restore the subfolder Containers/com.apple.iChat.
If you don't have a backup, the archive can't be restored.

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