Cashiers and Glenville
Interview with Martin Fowler, who has lived in Cashiers most of his life, and whose family owned most of the businesses there when he was growing up.
Cashiers is an unincorporated village located in southern Jackson County, North Carolina. Though Cashiers has a charter as a town from 1927, but has since become inactive leaving the village with no acting government body.
There are five properties located in Cashiers that are on the National Register of Historic Places. These places are as followed, Camp Merrie-Woode, the Church of the Good Shepherd, Fairfield Inn, the High Hampton Inn Historic District, and the Mordecai Zachary House.
Glenville was a town loacted in the Hamburg Township of Jackson County, North Carolina. Prior to the county’s incorporation in 1891, it was originally named Hamburgh and later renamed Hamburg, from which the township gets its name. The post office that serviced Hamburgh and Glenville was established in 1856, but settlement in the area began at least as early as 1820s. A surprising fact is at the time the town was incorporated in 1891, it was the largest town in Jackson County, this comes as surprising considering the town was so small.
In the form of schools the town had a private high school, the first in Jackson County. It was formed in 1886 and was just like Cullowhee High School which was founded in 1889, better known today as Western Carolina University. The school then transformed into a public institution in 1891. However, in 1926 a new Glenville School was built on a nearby hill above the town. This school would serve grades 1-11 and served as the main high school for that part of the county until 1975. In 1975, the Blue Ridge School opened, meaning the consolidation of Cashiers Elementary and the Glenville School. When the lake was filled in the 1940s, the waters were brought to the edge of the campus, making the school lakeside. It was the pride of the community but deteriorated after being abandoned and was demolished around 2000 to make way for lakeside homes.
The town of Glenville was destroyed in 1941 by Nantahala Power and Light after it built a hydroelectric dam, forming Lake Glenville. Today the area is home to many vaction homes and serves as a tourist trap, boasting multimillion-dollar homes.
The Fowler Farm House, is located in Cashiers, NC and was built in 1912 by Guy Zacahry, whose family was one of the original families in Cashiers.
