Cliffside, NC

Cliffside is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southeastern Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States. The 2020 census counted 530 residents. U.S. Route 221 Alternate and North Carolina Highway 120 pass through the community. ) Haynes, who established a textile mill there on the Second Broad River in 1899. Taken together, these details give a newcomer a usable picture of Cliffside, where its history, geography, and current gathering places meet. For Cliffside, the memorable detail is the way older history and current gathering places share one local map. Haynes had previously helped to build up the mills and factories of nearby Henrietta and Caroleen High Shoals, a former community in this vicinity, was a post office as early as 1828.