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Galleries
- Callahan Album
- Christmas Parade 1967
- Cliffside Day 2002
- Cliffside Day 2003
- Cliffside Day 2004
- Cliffside Day 2009
- Cliffside Day 2011
- Cliffside Day 2012
- Cliffside Day 2013
- Cliffside Day 2014
- Cliffside Day 2016
- Cliffside Railroad Photo Album
- Cliffside School Album
- Cliffside’s Little League
- Down on the River
- Faces of Cliffside
  - At Work in the Mill – 1
  - Faces of Cliffside I-a
  - Faces of Cliffside II-a
  - Faces of Cliffside III-a
- Firebugs
- First Rate Fotos
- Forest City Scenes
- Jim Scancarelli’s “Cliffside” Model
  - The Model Album
- Last to Go?
- Moving the Cabin
- Old Mill Tour Intro
  - Old Mill Tour 02
  - Old Mill Tour 03
  - Old Mill Tour 04
  - Old Mill Tour 05
  - Old Mill Tour 06
  - Old Mill Tour 07
  - Old Mill Tour 08
  - Old Mill Tour 09
  - Old Mill Tour 10
  - Old Mill Tour 11
  - Old Mill Tour 12
  - Old Mill Tour 13
  - Old Mill Tour 14
  - Old Mill Tour 15
  - Old Mill Tour 16
  - Old Mill Tour 17
  - Old Mill Tour 18
  - Old Mill Tour 19
  - Old Mill Tour 20
  - Old Mill Tour 21
  - Old Mill Tour 22
  - Old Mill Tour 23
  - Old Mill Tour 24
- Ponies on Parade
- Present Day Tour
  - The Ol’ Swimming Hole
  - Cliffside School
  - Upper Main Street
  - Rescue Squad Headquarters
  - Main Street Meets the Bypass
  - The Old Graveyard Grocery
  - Street Sign
    - Livermush
  - Fire Hydrant
  - Peaceful Slope
  - Shady Grove
  - Mud Cut
  - Old Baptist Church
  - Downtown Cliffside
  - Water Towers
  - West Side of Main
  - Looking Back
  - Stately Oaks
  - The Tower
  - Another View of The Tower
  - A Closeup of The Tower
  - War Memorial
  - Street Scene
  - New Church
  - Old Steps
  - Memorial Building Site
  - Corner of Main and Reservoir
  - Missing Buildings
  - Store Building Site
  - The Square
  - Get Up Bell
  - The Curve
  - Remains of the “Pits”
  - Cliffside Methodist Church
  - The Fence
  - Crumbling Wall
  - An Abrupt End
  - Keeps on Rollin’
  - Waterside View of the Mill
  - The Dam in May
  - The Dam in March
  - Footings
  - The “Manufacturing Plant”
  - The Coal Drop
  - The Coal Drop – Another View
  - The Mill – Another View
  - Atop the Mill
  - Useless Steps
  - Abandoned Trackbed
  - The 4th Avenue Cut
  - Bridge Support
  - Footbridge Steps
  - Engine House Site
  - Railroad Street
- Signs of Cliffside
- Tacky Party – 1955
- Thanksgiving Dinner 2004
- The Bypass
- The Cleanup
- The Gathering 2016
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History
- Articles and Stories
- Profiles
- Special Projects
- Town Map
House List 1944-46
- House List 1944-46 I
- House List 1944-46 II
- House List 1944-46 III
House List 1964
- House List 1964 A – F
- House List 1964 G – L
- House List 1964 M – R
- House List 1964 S – Z
House Lists
- House List 1935
  - House List 1935 II
  - House List 1935 III
Landmarks
- Cemetery Maps
- Cliffside Cemetery
- Cliffside Cemetery – Floyd’s List
- Cliffside School
- Cliffside’s Old School
- Haynes Grove Baptist Church
- Haynes Grove Cemetery
- Jenkins Grocery
- Lakeview Dairy
- Lakeview Mills
- Our Own Little Stonehenge
- R.R. Haynes Memorial Tower
- Riddles Creek
- The Cliffside Railroad
- The Dry Cleaners
- The Haynes Bank
- The R. R. Haynes Memorial Building
- The Town Clock
Media
- An Evening With Ben Humphries
- Drawing the Pond
- Fading Fabrics
- Farewell to the Old Cliffside Mill
- Henrietta-Caroleen-Avondale School Kids
- Rededicating the Town Clock
- The 1937 Cliffside Film
- The 1940 Cliffside Film
- The Cliffside Films
- The Players
- This is Progressive Rutherford County
Memories
- Memorable Moments
- News Stories and Columns
- Original Articles
- Photos
- Projects & Memoirs
- Yearbooks and Graduate Lists
Odds & Ends
- Artifacts
- Can you speak Cliffside?
- Did you know?
- Etcetera
- Reader Comments
- Remember That?
- Suggested Reading
  - Suggested Reading 2
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Photos of the Month
- 2002
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- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- 2011
- 2012
- 2013
Society
- A Talk by Dr. Jack Hunt
- Board of Directors
- Clock Tower Restoration
- Early Contributors
- Gatherings
- Members Lists
- Our Board
- Remembering Mr. Beatty
  - Beatty – Basketball
  - Beatty – College
  - Beatty – Helen Miller
  - Beatty – Lessons Learned
  - Beatty – Louise & Geraldine
  - Beatty – Marriage
  - Beatty – Mike Fisher
  - Beatty – Mom Comes to Cliffside
  - Beatty – Phillip White
  - Beatty – Spencer Culbreth
  - Beatty – The Faculty
  - Beatty – Travel
  - Beatty – Upbringing
  - Beatty – Young Harley
- Republishing R.R. Haynes Biography
- Restoring the Clockworks
- Talk by Ben Honeycutt
- Talk by Reno Bailey
- The Cliffside Railroad – 2014 Gathering
- Tribute to Cheetah
- Tribute to Myrtle Mashburn
- Veterans Memorial Rehabilitation
- Website Sponsors
- Website Sponsors 2011-2014
- Website Sponsors 2015-2018
- What We Do
The Cliffside: A Special Brand of Southern Charm
The County
- A Business History: Boom and Bust
  - Cotton gins fell to industry change
  - Cotton Was King in Farming
  - Extension sees farm renewal
  - Extension Service offers wide-ranging services
  - Haynes, Tanner Brought Changes
  - It’s time for change, creativity
  - No bailouts came for textiles
  - Other crops
  - Over a decade, a 100-year-old economic foundation crumbled
  - Program refocusing farming
  - Textile worker reflects on 50-plus years in mills
  - The timeline of change for county textile industry
  - We must have faith in county
- A Circle of Lives
- A Hanging at Sunshine
- A History of High Shoal Baptist Church
- A Short History of Henrietta and Caroleen
- A Terrible Disaster in Rutherfordton
- A Town Called Avondale, A Mill Named Haynes
- Alexander Mills – 1918
- An Englishman’s Trip To Rutherford, 1837
- Avondale Map
- Caroleen Mill-The Beginning
- Cherry Trees for Sale
- Dr. Ben Washburn
  - A County Doctor in the South Mountains
  - Dr. Washburn’s Obituary
  - To Every Thing A Season
- Dr. T. C. Lovelace.
- End of an era for D.C. Cole’s musical family
- Garden Club & School at Henrietta
- Good Old Days Much in Doubt
- Growing Up Years
  - Carolina Avenue Stories
  - Forest City Grocery Stores
  - Lake Street
  - My Movie Memories
  - Pets
  - Segregation and the Movies
- Haynes Mill & Avondale
- Henrietta Mill
- Henrietta Mills Scrip
- History of Florence Mill
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- Look! Up In The Sky!
- Notes on S. B. Tanner
- R. K. Hollifield
  - About Robert K. Hollifield
  - Keep a Diary
  - Presidential Deaths
  - Raleigh Haynes At Work
  - Random Notes
  - Rutherford County in 1884
  - Chapter One
  - Chapter Two
  - Chapter Three
  - Chapter Four
  - Chapter Five
  - Chapter Six
  - Chapter Seven
  - Chapter Eight
  - Chapter Nine
  - Chapter Ten
  - Chapter Eleven
  - Chapter Twelve
  - Chapter Thirteen
  - Chapter Fourteen
  - Chapter Fifteen
  - Chapter Sixteen
  - Chapter Seventeen
  - Chapter Eighteen
  - Chapter Nineteen
  - Chapter Twenty
  - Chapter Twenty One
  - Chapter Twenty Two
  - Chapter Twenty Three
  - Chapter Twenty Four
  - Chapter Twenty Five
  - Chapter Twenty Six
  - Chapter Twenty Seven
  - Chapter Twenty Eight
  - Chapter Twenty Nine
  - Chapter Thirty
  - Chapter Thirty One
  - Chapter Thirty Two
  - Chapter Thirty Three
  - Chapter Thirty Four
  - Chapter Thirty Five
  - Chapter Thirty Six
  - Chapter Thirty Seven
  - Chapter Thirty Eight
  - Chapter Thirty Nine
  - Chapter Forty
  - Chapter Forty One
  - Chapter Forty Two
  - Chapter Forty Three
  - Chapter Forty Four
  - Chapter Forty Five
  - Chapter Forty Six
  - Chapter Forty Seven
- Reminiscences of Christenberry Lee
- Rock Springs Campground
- Romina Revisited – Part 1
  - Romina Revisited – Part 2
- Rutherford County once covered all of WNC
- Rutherford Soldiers in WWI
- Rutherfordton Parade – 1920s
- Satisfied employees at Tanner Mills
- Side Roads
  - Going If Not Gone
  - Mr. Bright’s Daffodils
  - Old Businesses
- The 1918 Flu Epidemic in High Shoals
- The 1944 Henrietta Fire
- The Legend of Daniel Keith
- The Story of Haynes Mill and the Town of Avondale
- Tribute to WWII Heroes
- W. A. McArthur, Photographer
- West Henrietta
- Amos Owens 1
  - Amos Owens 2
  - Amos Owens 3
  - Amos Owens 4
  - Amos Owens 5
- Henrietta, Caroleen and Avondale
  - Henrietta, Caroleen and Avondale 2
  - Henrietta, Caroleen and Avondale 3
  - Henrietta, Caroleen and Avondale 4
  - Henrietta, Caroleen and Avondale 5
- The State Magazine
  - Rutherford Swapped Farming for Industry
  - North Carolina’s Private Mint
  - Oddities of the Chimney Rock Gorge
  - It Was a Struggle
  - Murphy to Manteo
  - Rivals
  - Rutherford Facts
  - Buried Treasure
  - Acknowledgment
  - One Last Word
What’s New
Where are we?
In The News
- 1928 Election
- 1928 Presidential Election Results
- 38 News
- A Day’s Journey
- A Day’s Journey 2
- A Day’s Journey 3
- Advertisement for New Romina Theatre
- Announcement of Commencement at Cliffside School
- Big Social Event
- Bull wasn’t tamed, just sleeping
- Christmas Spirit Invades Cliffside
- Cliffside Advertising in the 1920s
- Cliffside Builds Large Reservoir
- Cliffside Events Carefully Noted
- Cliffside Events July 8, 1926
- Cliffside Fives Busy Practicing
- Cliffside High Commencement 1928
- Cliffside High School accredited
- Cliffside Jack Credited With K.O.
- Cliffside Listens to Band by Radio
- Cliffside now making terry towels
- Cliffside One of Model towns
- Cliffside School Changes Name
- Cliffside school news – Jan 21, 1926
- Cliffside Schools Play House Opens
- Cliffside scouts dedicate cabin
- Cliffside Style Weddings
- Cliffside takes a careful census
- Cliffside to have a community tree
- Cliffside Youth in Wilds of Africa
- Cliffside Youths Hitch-hike to Kansas
- Cliffside Youths Honored by Girls
- Commencement of Cliffside High School 1927
- Corn Cracker
- Detailed Record
- Dry Cleaning Plant
- Enlargement Plans
- Explosion Fatal to Woman
- Fine Exhibition of Old Relics
- First Cotton Bale Goes to Cliffside
- Garden Prizes 1926
- Garden Prizes Awarded 1927
- Haynes Memorial largely attended
- Haynes mill at Avondale to open soon
- Hazelhurst Farm
- Improvements at Cliffside Mills
- J. F. Bailey Dies After Hunting Accident
- Jennings Harris Dies in Car Crash
- Jennings Harris Obituary
- Letters to Santa
- Life of Z. O. Jenkins
- Live Cliffside News
- Magnificent New Play House Opens
- Many Visitors
- Methodists give pastor their farewell
- Mill is building rest room for ladies
- Mrs. George Tate Killed by Husband
- New Forest City Theatre to Open Thursday Night
- New highway work progressing fast
- News Briefs – 1926
- News Briefs – 1927
- Our County as it will look in 1936
- Our Neighbors: James Kenneth McMahan
- Pupils Will Have New Gymnasium
- Romina Theatre is jammed Thursday
- Senior Class Graduates Tuesday Evening 1929
- Senior class superlatives 1927
- Store Sale Ends
- Sunday school building for Methodists
- Thirty-seven are baptized
- Two escape death as car turns over
- Work on Bridge well under way