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In March, Kirby Johnson acquired the 3.7-acre tract and the two buildings that remained. The price through a court-ordered sale was $168,000. “I’ve been working on getting this property for about 10 years and I’ve finally been able to make it happen,” Johnson said. “We hope to use the gym for an antique tractor and implement museum and maybe make a duplex out of the cafeteria next door.” Johnson, a Mills River produce grower and packer who lives in the Valley Hill community, is connected with IHCC Chapter 43, a Western North Carolina antique tractor collectors club. On Saturday a yard sale was held in the old gym which, after a dozen years, was cleaned up for the event. The gym and cafeteria, both brick structures, are fully functional. After years of neglect, the school was bought by Pathway Christian Academy and used as a school again. But hard times fell on the private school business during the recession and the elements took a toll on the oldest of the three schoo