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| Description | This is the old Hampton Schoolhouse, recently saved from demolition due to the expansion of the golf course at High Hampton Inn and Resort in Cashiers, North Carolina. The simple, wood-frame schoolhouse was built by General Wade Hampton III around 1891 to educate children in the Cashiers Valley, where very few schools existed at the time. The building remained in use until around 1920, when the larger one-room Cashiers Valley School was built near the center of the valley, and the students were transferred there. The Cashiers Valley School itself still stands along North Carolina Highway 107 not far from the High Hampton Resort, and remained in use until 1938, when the Works Progress Administration built a larger, red brick, four-room schoolhouse known as Cashiers Elementary School on Cashiers School Road, which was tripled in size in 1951 with a sizeable addition, and closed in 1975 when Blue Ridge School opened. The 1951 addition is the only portion of Cashiers Elementary School that remains standing, but has been extensively altered with the addition of a pitched roof and siding. In the meantime, the old Hampton Schoolhouse was transformed into a guest cottage upon the transformation of the Hampton estate into an inn during the 1920s, and it remained in use in this capacity until 2018, when, as the resort was looking to expand the golf course, the Schoolhouse was found to be in the way. Generously offering to help the historical society move the structure, the resort donated the building to the Cashiers Historical Society, and the building was moved a mile from where it had stood for 127 years to the grounds of the Zachary-Tolbert House, where it joins a collection of other structures similarly rescued from demolition in the area. Today, the building lacks a permanent foundation and has not yet been integrated into the historical society’s grounds, but will make a welcome addition to the collection of buildings that make up some of the most important bits of history of this isolated, beautiful, and bucolic mountain community. |
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| Author | Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States |
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