File:Dillsboro Road, Sylva, NC (45906630974).jpg
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| Description | This old farmhouse at the corner of Dillsboro Road and Dills Cove Road may be one of the oldest, if not the oldest building still standing in the town of Sylva. Though it has a construction date listed as 1905, which could quite easily fit the house’s character, style, and appearance, the clearly incorrectly listed dates of construction for several other older houses in town in the public record, the placement and construction of the chimneys, as well as other details, suggest that this house very well could be quite older, with the house possibly dating to as early as the mid-19th Century, being one piece of a farm that once existed in the area that was, over time, divided into smaller sections. The house was built at a time when an over 100-foot-tall waterfall existed only a few feet away on the creek that runs beside the house, a natural wonder that was erased in 1973 when the North Carolina Department of Transportation constructed the freeway bypass segment of US 23/74 around Sylva, routing it directly over the waterfall, destroying it in the process and routing the creek through a small culvert under the four busy highway lanes. A sad reflection of misplaced priorities, lack of environmental regulations or protections that existed before the Environmental Protection Agency and modern sensibilities about natural features in the United States existed. Though Dills Falls no longer exists, may the memory and loss of it not fade from view. It serve as a precedent of why environmental protections and conservation of natural resources are necessary and vital, and as an example of what not to do when constructing infrastructure in the name of progress. The farmhouse, meanwhile, still stands, a bit less grand than it once was, with its porch enclosed, and four lanes of busy highway traffic rushing along high above it, most motorists on it unaware of the house below, or the waterfall that once stood beneath where there is now only pavement visible. |
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| Source | Dillsboro Road, Sylva, NC |
| Author | Warren LeMay from Cincinnati, OH, United States |
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