This week in Fort Mill history, in 1998: Patterson pitches Indian Land to SC title

By Chip Heemsoth

May 24, 2018 4:08 PM

Led by Jessica Patterson’s pitching, the Indian Land Warriors softball team won its second consecutive state Class A championship, 10-0 over the Wagener-Salley War Eagles.
Ryan Dawson, Fort Mill High School freshman, was selected as the Children’s Miracle Network Champion for North Carolina.
The Firehouse Grill at 2760 Highway 21 Business, Fort Mill, offered $1 off all beers and 50¢ off all wines during Happy Hour.
Scott Wells added a Blimpie Sub Shop to his Spratt Street store in Fort Mill.

Coach Bill Banks’ Fort Mill Yellow Jackets, behind the pitching of Billy Burris, won the District Tournament by defeating Clover, Furman and Mayewood High Schools.
Vereen Barron and Pat Keziah were elected to attend Girls State at the University of South Carolina during the summer.
Debra Osborne of Fort Mill, a basketball star at North Greenville Junior College, signed a grant-in-aid to play basketball at Erskine College.
Bob Lordo, Lisa Nichols, Beverly Jones and Guy Molnar were named Furman Scholars at Fort Mill High School.

Linda Fields was valedictorian and Norma Gayle Lytle was salutatorian for the Class of 1958 at Fort Mill High School.
Work had started on building a clinic for Dr. Max A. Culp on Leroy Street extension, next to the Cook apartment house.

J. M. Belk began work as manager of the Catawba Credit Company of which Major George W. Potts was principal owner.
A number of cottages for operatives of Mill No. 2 of the Springs Mills were being built on a new street connecting Academy Street and the village of the mill.

Movies at the Majestic included “Skirt Strategy,” “The Woman in the Web,” “The Good Bad Man” starring Doug Fairbanks and “The Cold Deck” with William S. Hart.
Three young men from Fort Mill, John E. Jones, Samuel Lee and Paul Hoke, were called for war service.

Chip Heemsoth is a lifelong resident of Fort Mill.