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What's New - 2010
09/01/2010 Odds & Ends gets a couple of new pages; one for a grocery store traffic-builder coupon, the other a grammer school report card from 1933.
Another story for the Duke Power section. Greta Harmon Loeber offers the details of her family's house being moved from Duke Village.
September's Photo of the Month is a sad reminder of how quickly things evolve.
In Photo Galleries, there's an album of 32 clock restoration photos.
JoAnn Huskey has enhanced our Family Stories section with "A Son Who Never Forgets," about James David Padgett's long drive every Mothers' Day to visit the grave of the mother he never knew.
08/01/2010 Our August Photo of the Month is of a big event in downtown Cliffside in 1924.
Graduates of 1954 will be glad to learn we've scanned and posted that year's Cliff-Dweller.
In “Where Are They Now?” we've included the vivacious Frances McMurray Houser. You'll love her funny incidents.
In 1914, a great project was underway just beyond the roller mill. A giant culvert was being installed along the railroad track. Apparently this, and tons of fill, were intended to replace the Hill Creek trestle.
Pore over this old map of our town from the 1920's. Cliffside was a lot different then.
In “Odds & Ends” find out what happened to the mill's steam whistle. It's in good hands.
Thanks once again to McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home for sponsoring this website for another month. We regret that, in last month's What's New, we failed to identify the correct sponsors. They were Ashley and Ginny Reid. Thanks to the Reids.
07/09/2010 Added new page of photos, in Clock Restoration Fund, under "Inside The Tower" tab, page 4. Describes clock's system of chains and weights. 07/04/2010 We've updated the "Things You Should Know" column on the front page.
In the Current section, there's news of Duke Energy and The Shaw Group's donations to Cliffside School.
07/01/2010 Were you there in 1940, in a house on South Main? Enjoy this beautiful color photo by Hazel Haynes Bridges of the quaint "cottages" (as they were described on postcards) along the pond. It's July's Photo of the Month.
On the Clock Restoration Fund page (in the Society section) we've added two terrific stories about the project by Cliffside native Allison Flynn, which appeared recently in the Daily Courier. Also on the same page we've added a list of the names of all clock fund contributors.
Thanks once again to McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home for sponsoring this website for another month.
We've added 16 more pictures to the Haynes Family Photo Album (pp. 7-13) from Betty Shull Griffin, granddaughter of R.R. Haynes, and daughter of Dr. J. Rush and Eula Mae Haynes Shull. Betty was born in Cliffside in 1917 when her father was the town's doctor. They moved to Charlotte when she was only three, but she has fond memories of her many visits back to her birthplace.
If you have not donated to the clock fund, please give to this important cause. Let's not let our precious clock sit a moment longer, gathering dust and rust. Donate today, by credit card or check.
At the end of May 1966, Paul Bridges stepped down as General Manager of the Cliffside Division of Cone Mills. Stover Dunagan did a nice profile of Paul in the Courier.
Not too long ago, Jim Ruppe and Don Bailey visited with Hollis Owens, Jr., in Avondale. They recorded Hollis' memories of Cliffside, where he attended school in the 1930s. You'll really enjoy this conversation, which lasts nearly an hour.
In Odds & Ends, we've included a short and sweet invitation to the public from First Citizens Bank to its 1977 opening in the "rock building."
05/31/10 We've added two new pages to the Duke Village story, “Moving Pictures” and “The Bishop House,” both having to do with individual houses being bought and moved away in the late 1950's when the village was “abandoned” by the power company.
There's also a supplement to last month's story on Vernon Stallings with a 1997 story from the Courier of Coleen, Vernon's sister, discovering the Reader's Digest article on "Johnson's List."
This month the McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home has completed half of a year long sponsorship of Remember Cliffside. Our thanks for their generosity. Perhaps you could step up and buy a month or two, or even a year.
In Family Stories you'll enjoy Ben Honeycutt's story and photos of both his families, the Honeycutts and Sorgees.
Yearbook fans will welcome our scan of the Cliffdweller of 1953, that wonderful year when Gene Matheny, Franklin Parris, Annie May Scruggs, Clyde Jackson and 22 others squeaked by. It was on that year that little Jimmy Ruppe and Kay Miller were Grammar Grade Prince and Princess, respectively (see page 34).
Our Photo of the Month is of a bunch of old gears. Go see what they're part of.
They aren't called firemen just because they put OUT fires. Sometimes they SET them! In the '60s when mill houses were being abandoned, our "firebugs" burned down several of them, just for practice. Here are photos.
Excuse our recent obsession with the Cliffside clock. Every couple of decades it gets out of whack, what you'd expect for a 90 year old. It hasn't worked right for the last three or four years, and for the last year it hasn't worked at all. The Society is taking the bull by the horns, taking the responsibility to see that it's fixed and that it stays fixed. The clock is one of the few items left of old Cliffside. We must preserve and protect it. We hope you will help us in this cause.
05/01/10 Thanks to Anthony Scruggs for a nice landscape photo of Henrietta Street, West End, Henrietta. Made in the 1920s, or even earlier. Its under History, The County, Photos.
Under History, Profiles, there's an outstanding profile and photos of Rev. Zeno Wall written by Don Bailey.
An anonymous donor gave the Society an artifact from yesteryear, an old sign that hung for many years over the door of the Cliffside Railroad office. You'll see now and then, a photo made lately and another from the '50s showing it above that door. It's in Odds & Ends.
Vernon Stallings, who is remembered as a youngster going to school at Cliffside, was a casualty of the Korean War. He and hundreds of other U.S. soldiers were captured and forced on a death march into North Korea. Many, including Vernon, never survived. Here's his story.
The Photo of the Month, “Twin Spans,” made in 1967, marked the end—or nearly the end—of an era, when Cliffside's main drag stopped being the route to all points south. The new river bridge was nearing completion; the old one was nearing oblivion.
In “Where Are They Now?” there's a nice report from Shirley Crawford Thompson. For your genealogical road maps, she is cousin to Ralph and Juanita Crawford. Her late husband Sam, who once ran the filter plant in Cliffside, was a brother of F. C. Thompson, whose newspaper columns are found on this site.
This month's sponsor of the Web site is, once more, the McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home. And, we reiterate, our thanks.
04/01/10 April's Photo of the Month: Who are those handsome men with their ties tucked into their shirts? They're the shop class of 1950 (all the girls were taking home economics).
Many thanks to Jim Cauble for his map of Duke Village as it existed in the 1950s, and for the list of residents. It's on our Duke Power page, which we've revamped, with more material to come.
Another person is added to Where Are They Now? Bill Ingram is in Casar, NC, after many years in the Navy and in law enforcement.
Again, this month's sponsor of the Web site is the McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home. We thank Steve Carroll for his generosity.
Now for something completely different. Read the message below and help out on this special project.
03/01/2010 The Photo of the Month, "The Lineup," shows a group of mill men whose job was to make denim, lots and lots of denim.
During WWII, Cliffside's high school students contributed in many ways to the war effort, collecting scrap, buying savings stamps, even helping farmers harvest their crops.
In our History, Profiles section, there's a nice article on John Wilkins, father of a large Cliffside family. He came to Cliffside in 1918 (at the age of 18), and was a plumber for most of his life.
In 1969 Cliffside native Troy Houser, then the editor of the Forest City Courier, wrote a story on our town Clock's 50th anniversary. Story and pictures here.
Don Bailey has a new book, Cliffside, North Carolina: The First Half Century covers in great detail the history of our town from its earliest beginnings in 1899 through 1959. Read more on the front page.
This month's sponsor of the Web site is, once again, the McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home. And, once again, our thanks.
02/01/2010 Their (the Company's) in box was never empty. They received many letters, from job seekers, former residents, etc. Here are a couple.
In 1907, an 11-year-old Cliffside boy whacked a dynamite cap with a hammer. It exploded and blinded him in one eye. Seven years later, he sued the Company for negligence, claiming its workers left the cap lying around where he could get it. Did they? Or was he lying? See what you think. Read “Was Justice Served?”
Daisy Keeter Wilson recalls her years growing up in Cliffside. She was born in 1916, and is now in her nineties. She's Joan Wilson's mom. Read Daisy Wilson Reminisces.
From a small newspaper called The Clipper, here's a brief biography of Miss Pamelia Pruette.
Photo of the Month is the interior of another Cliffside landmark, the Fairview Service Station, and of two well-regarded citizens.
This month's sponsor of the Web site is the McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home. As always, our thanks.
Where are they now? This month Sherry Harris Phelps is the object of our inquiry. (Check out our new “Where are they” gliding panel on the front page.)
In The County, under Places, we have a history of a long-forgotten—at least long-unmentioned—site where annual camp meetings were held. It was the Rock Springs Campground.
01/01/2010 The Photo of the first Month of this new decade is a nostalgic look down a road you'll all remember, or still travel.
There are nice profiles and photos (under History, Profiles) of Grover and Ina Fortune Haynes, written by their son, Grover Haynes, Jr.
On your way to Shelby, did you ever stop in at Jenkins Grocery at Fairview, just over the county line? We've immortalized it (if you can do that to places) in Landmarks.
We've added 78 new photos in a new WWII image gallery, and improved (we hope) the looks and navigation of this very important part of the History section.
We've unearthed an old letter (1901) from R. R. Haynes to a friend, in which he relates the progress being made in building the Cliffside Mill. Surprisingly, for a go-getter like Mr. Haynes, things were moving pretty slowly.
And our thanks to Steve Carroll, of McKinney-Landreth Funeral Home, for being this month's Web sponsor.
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