Democrat photo/Garrett Fuller — An excavator pulls a semitruck hauling a 232,000-pound home across a field Wednesday (Sept. 6) behind a row of homes in High Point. The 1860s home is being moved to a new spot closer to the High Point R-III School, where owner Steve Ramer intends to restore it for vacation rentals. Ramer grew up in the child after his family purchased it in the late 1980s. Thomas J. Hart, a Civil War captain, originally occupied the home before selling it to J.F. Tising, a prominent High Point businessman. Because of previous night's rain, the ground was soft — resulting in some minor setbacks for the Tilton and Sons House Moving crew. They had to use steel plates to prevent the truck from getting stuck, and once had to lift the house with blocks after it got stuck in a terrace.
HIGH POINT -- A historic High Point house has a new home.
Tilton and Sons House Moving, of Carthage, arrived early Sept. 6 to help move an 1860s home from in front of Pop's Surplus to a spot east of the High Point R-III School.
