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Cliffside was a model town, lauded and envied like few others of its kind. It was the dream of its founder, Raleigh Rutherford Haynes, a home-grown tycoon who created an entire industry along the Second Broad River in Rutherford County. More than a town, Cliffside was a way of life. It was a society shaped by Haynes's respect and concern for his workers and neighbors, by his unwavering sense of justice and fairness, and by his insatiable desire for perfection. Even now, long after his death in 1917, his legend and his principles live on in the people of this once-bustling little town. In...

Cliffside, North Carolina was a model little village for its time, over a span of about 90 years. It was a one-company town, an example--a good one--of the paternal mill ownership that was the practice of the day. A man named Raleigh Haynes had the vision, ambition and skills to tranform part of lower Rutherford County, an area called High Shoals, from a wilderness of forests and brambles to a thriving, productive place, making use of the two most prevalent local resouces--cotton and water power. In 1900 he built a dam on the Second Broad River, on the banks of which he erected a giant mill...