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This week’s “Then and Now” could also be titled “Here and There,” for it features the same building in two different locations. The old Gola and Jerdie Ferguson house in Cullowhee (top photo), seen here around 1973, stood at the lower end of the Cullowhee Valley School campus, near the back entrance bridge that’s used by the school’s buses. After standing empty for some 15 years, the house was moved across Speedwell Road to make way for the relocation of N.C. 107, which once went through the Western Carolina University campus. The new portion of highway opened around 1980, according to N.C. Department of Transportation District Engineer Jonathan Woodard, and the house was moved before construction began. It’s changed hands several times through the years and was a fraternity house for a number of years before being purchased in 2003 by Jack Debnam to house the Cullowhee office of Western Carolina Properties. Cullowhee Valley School, which replaced the old Camp Laboratory School at WCU, opened in 1994. According to former Jackson County Commissioners’ Chairman Wayne Hooper, Gola Ferguson was from Swain County and married Jerdie Watson. The two owned a large field that stretched almost to the present location of the Jackson County Recreation Center. – Photo courtesy Lynn Hotaling (top) and Herald photo by Nick Breedlove |
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