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...