File:Elliott Road, Whittier, NC (31699954987).jpg
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| Description | In addition to the highway being routed on the opposite side of the river in the 1920s and the Great Depression taking down the town’s lumber industry during the 1930s, the Flood of 1940 on the Tuckaseigee River was yet another blow that the former town of Whittier, North Carolina faced during its decline. These houses, built after the flood, use materials salvaged from various demolished buildings around the town, and, despite their hybrid Craftsman and Folk Victorian style, were built during the 1940s, 1950s or 1960s, with a build date for many of them being listed as 1960, much later than the time period in which the architectural elements they display were popular. The dissolution of the business district on the Swain County side of the Tuckaseigee River, which had begun when US Highway 19 was routed on the Jackson County side of the river in the 1920s, was intensified by the depression, with the flood being one of the final nails in the proverbial coffin. The town, which was founded in 1881 by Clark Whittier and incorporated in 1887, was disincorporated in 1933, and today is what I consider to be a sort-of “ghost town” that is still inhabited and still has some businesses, institutions, and services, but has much less going on than it did during its heyday between the 1880s and 1920s. |
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| Source | Elliott Road, Whittier, NC |
| Author | Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States |
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