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Home » History » Articles and Stories

History: Articles & Stories

Page One

Roots of Earl and Snuffy
Searching for the Banjo Along the North/South Carolina Border
1901 Letter from R.R. Haynes
Progress report on building the mill
A Cliffside Connection
To the Battle of Kings Mountain
A History of Cliffside
Recap of the town’s golden years 
A Life In A Cardboard Box
Feb. 2011
A Shortage of Kudzu?
Once scarce; now we can’t escape it
A-May-ZING! (Spring Festival)
May 2006
An Important Concert
Stars perform in Cliffside, Dec. 3, 1923
A “new” Map of Cliffside
A long-forgotten document discovered
A New Dollar General Store
Sep. 2009
An Ordinary Afternoon, and then . . .
Tragedy struck in Cliffside
Baby Week Exhibit
Photos of a 1916 health training event
Ben Humphries on “Broad River” music
Oral History Project
Big Train Wreck of 1911
Derailment above Ellenboro
Big Weekend
Oct. 2014
Bio: Miss Pamelia Alice Pruette
Her sister pens a loving portrait
Book Report
Jul. 2006
The Train Shooters
Photography club captures our old engine #40
“Breaking” News
Sep. 2005
Buck Shoals School
A country school long gone
Busy Work
A World War II citizen survey
The Bypass (downhill ever since)
Yes, there were a few disadvantages
Changes in Cliffside
Are Mark of Progress, 1976
Chasing History is Hard Work
A closer look at an old photo
Cliffside’s Bustin’ Out All Over
New homes abuilding (in 2015)
Cliffside Day 2005
Oct. 2005
Cliffside Day 2010 – Preview
Oct. 2010
Cliffside Day Photos
Oct. 2009
Cliffside Mills Boost NRA
The Purple Cloud, Nov. 1933
Cliffside Mills Store
Service Rules, circa 1918
Cliffside Native Writes Novel
Mar. 2011
Cliffside Remains Only in Memory
Headline of story, April 23, 2002
Cliffside School Life
Goings on in 1924
The Company Stores
Jim Ruppe reviews them all
 

Page Two

Continuing Education
Mill hands get special training
Daisy Wilson Reminisces
Daisy’s memories of life in Cliffside
Dam Maintenance
What it takes to maintain the old dam
Daphene Ledford Cantrell,
Obituary, October 2011
Dedicating Engine’s New Home
June 2013
Do-it-yourself Electrification
Families installed town power lines
Duke Plant Modernization
Huge Update to the Power Station
Earl Scruggs 1924-2012
Observer story quotes Ben Humphries
Faculty Gains and Losses
Reported in Purple Cloud, Nov. 1933
Filmmaker Honored
Jul. 2004
The Freeman Tragedies
Two brothers drown — 52 years apart
The Golden Eagle
This 84-year-old artifact still around
Good Man Gone
Beloved principal killed, 1935
The Great Race
A ‘marathon’ run in 1910
The Haynes Bottling Company
First “soda water” bottler in county?
Haynes Grove Baptist Church Centennial
Nov. 2007
Ice Storm
Winter scenes – 1941
Jack Biggerstaff Passes
Nov. 2005
Joe Compton’s Supreme Sacrifice
a World War II hero
Lost, Then Found
Mar. 2008
Matt Ingram’s Shinin’ The Rails:
The Story of Cliffside, a graduate thesis
Meet the Dam Builder, 1906
The man who built Cliffside’s dam
The Memorial Building’s Last Days
Photos, blueprints of new tower
Million-Dollar Treatment Plant
Opened By Cone, Jan. 25, 1973
Mill Workers Buy Millowner’s House
Nov. 2015
More Dam Pictures
Sep. 2006
Mr. Beatty Retires
After 42 years at Cliffside School
Nature Winning Again
Familiar landmarks lose the fight
Nicknames of Cliffside
Oral History Project
Not Your Grandfather’s Mill House
Aug. 2007
Old Cliffside’s New Owners
Old mill, downtown area are sold
 

Page Three

One Last Time
A farewell tour of the old mill
Over 3,000 Acres of Haynes Land
Deeded to heirs on Dec. 22. 1922
Railroad Passes
Want free train rides? See Mr. Charlie
Raleigh Biggerstaff’s “Most Unusual Town”
Oral History Project
The Right Side of “Fish”
A profile of G. C. Fisher
Smallpox Outbreak in 1920
Devastating to those who got it
The Sum of Its Parts
Old engine 110 – on the ground in pieces
Swing House Abuilding
Nov. 2005
The 1916 Washout
Chimney Rock & the big Flood
They (the Company) Got Letters
From job seekers and former residents
Time Was … 1952
From Cliffside: The First Half Century
Wartime in Cliffside
Civil Defense mobilization
Was Justice Served?
Details of the 1914 Barnett trial
What if…?
What if we had been incorporated?
What is the Blue Moon?
Aug. 2005
When It’s Over, Over There
News of Cliffside’s Cone Elliott, 1918-19
White Ends 38-Year Career
June 23, 2005
Who Owned Cliffside?
A list of shareholders on Feb. 6, 1917
Who would have thought?
Remember Cliffside’s 4th Anniversary
The W.T. Grady Family Band,
A 1920s local string band
Year of Big Prizes
The 1955 raffle in Cliffside

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