File:Old Home Cash Store, Whittier, NC (39676462583).jpg
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| Description | Along the banks of the Tuckaseigee River, straddling Jackson County and Swain County, is the small former town of Whitter, North Carolina. Founded in 1881 by Clark Whittier, the community rapidly grew around a railroad depot on the Murphy Branch of the Western North Carolina Railroad, and was incorporated as a town in 1887. The town continued to prosper into the 1920s, and was at one point one of the most significant railroad towns in the western part of the state, but, with an economy heavily based around timber and logging, the town was hit hard when the industry collapsed during the Great Depression, leading to a disincorporation in 1933, suffering such a massive blow that it never recovered. Today, I consider it to be a sort-of “ghost town.” People still live here and there are still businesses, but it has declined precipitously since its heyday around the turn of the 20th Century. These buildings, on the Jackson County side of the town along Old US 19, are the former Osborne Mill/Ferguson’s store (red roofed building at the corner), the old Home Cash Store (the larger of the two false-front buildings), and the town’s old grist Mill (the smaller false-front building). They are in a section of town that ended up surviving as a commercial district following the area’s decline, with the original commercial district being on the opposite side of the river around the railroad depot, located in Swain County. |
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| Source | Old Home Cash Store, Whittier, NC |
| Author | Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States |
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