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