File:The Village Store, Cullowhee, NC (31699052487).jpg
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editDescriptionThe Village Store, Cullowhee, NC (31699052487).jpg | This is the old Village Store, a former grocery, post office, and gas station that sits along Old Cullowhee Road (old North Carolina Highway 107) along the Tuckaseigee River in Cullowhee, North Carolina. Constructed during the 1920s or 1930s, the long, rambling brick structure was the home of Battle’s Grocery, which sat along the main road between Cullowhee and Sylva at the place where it crossed a bridge over the Tuckaseigee River, adjacent to a larger building that housed Brown’s Store, now the Kindermusik building. The store not only sold groceries to the population of the area, which included students at Western Carolina Teacher’s College (now Western Carolina University), but also sold gasoline, with a canopy being attached to the front facade of the building (as seen in the black and white photo that was taken after the devastating flood of 1940), and also contained the Cullowhee Post Office into the 1950s. This area of Cullowhee was historically the commercial center of the community, which blossomed in the area following the construction of a mill at the present site of the Cullowhee Dam on the Tuckaseigee River, and once boasted several houses and businesses that catered to the needs of the surrounding, rural region of the county, as well as the local area. Much of the “old village” was swept away by the Flood of 1940, though brick buildings like the Village Store survived. The store was renovated in the 1960s or 1970s with a bonnet roof added to the structure, obscuring the brick parapet, and operated through the 1980s, but, with the new alignment of North Carolina Highway 107 bypassing this section of town, the store, along with other businesses, went into a steady decline, and eventually closed. Since that time, the surrounding area has mostly emptied out of the businesses that once made up a thriving hub of activity, and building has sat vacant, boarded up, and abandoned, with the owners unwilling to sell. Unfortunately, I do not see much of a future for the building, as it is in a severely deteriorated state, and, with potential redevelopment on the horizon for the surrounding area, it is unlikely to last much longer. |
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Author | Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States |
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