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Home » What’s New » April 2016

April 2016

May 31, 2016 by Reno

In 1922, the land personally owned by the late R. R. Haynes (3,270 acres) was deeded to his heirs. Find out who got what. (This did not include land owned by Cliffside Mills.)

There’s another trip down Rutherford County’s Side Roads, this time a gallery of W.D. Floyd’s 1999 photos of old dilapidated houses that were Going if not Gone.

Cliffside High had no yearbooks in 1924 for its second graduating clase, but they did print up a nice program for the three-day event (May 31-June 2). There were the graduation excercises, a 3-act play by the senior class and the baccalaureate sermon.

Cotton mills might pay you in scrip back in the ’20s and ’30s, which you could redeem only at the company store. Here’s an example of scrip used at the mills in Henrietta and Caroleen.

In February 1967 there was an event in which no fewer that 40 otherwise clear-headed, serious men of the community took part in a mock ceremony in which the roles of women were played by {gasp} men in female garb. Such events, called Womanless Weddings, were held every 8 or 10 years or so, or whenever memories of the last one were fully faded. Here is photographic evidence and the names of the participants.

One of Cliffside’s important landmarks in the days of yore was the Lakeview Dairy, which provided milk for Cliffside, Avondale and the surrounding area.

It’s not often we see a document over a century old that’s evidence of local history being made. Steve Harrill has sent us an image of an 1894 letter to his great-great grandfather. It confirms the acquisition of his land (by Henrietta Mills) on which the Caroleen mill will be built.

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The Cliffside Clock Tower

Our town clock was installed in 1920, and for over half a century tolled the quarter hours from atop the R. R. Haynes Memorial Building. When the building was razed in the late 1970s this new tower for the old timepiece was erected on the site of Mr. Haynes' original Cliffside home. Although the property of the county, the Cliffside Historical Society has assumed responsibility for maintaining this beloved antique.

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