Cliffside, North Carolina


Cliffside is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in southeastern Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States. Its population was 611 as of the 2010 census. Cliffside has a post office with ZIP code 28024. U.S. Route 221 Alternate and North Carolina Highway 120 pass through the community.

History

Cliffside was founded by Raleigh Rutherford Haynes, who established a textile mill there on the Second Broad River. High Shoals, a former community in this vicinity, was a post office as early as 1828.
Cliffside Public School was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.