This week in Fort Mill History: Do you remember?

1996

▪ At Newberry, the Fort Mill High School Marching Band won the State AAA Marching Band Championship. It was the program’s 15th state title in twenty years.

▪ The Indian Land High School Marching Band won the State Class A Marching Band Championship, also at Newberry. It was their fifth state title in five years.

▪ A 16-year-old Indian Land girl, who had spina bifida, wandered away from her home. After an extensive search, she was found safe and well.

▪ As the 1976 high school football season wound down, Fort Mill was 2-7 and Indian Land was 0-9.

1976

▪ In a total team effort, Fort Mill’s Yellow Jackets throttled the Chesterfield Golden Rams 42-6. At halftime, Barbara Smith was crowned as the 1976 Homecoming Queen.

▪ Miss Patti Mills of Mars Hill College attended the National Conference on Student Legal Rights held in Kansas City, Mo.

▪ The Indian Land Warriors were 6-1-1 and 3-0 in conference play after an 8-6 victory over Lamar.

▪ “Shenandoah,” the long running New York musical, began a three-week run at the Pineville Dinner Theatre.

1956

▪ Fifth graders on the Central School Honor Roll included Polly Boyd., Andrea Caudle, Ann Rogers Cantrell, Lynn Pettus, Frances Rippy, Teresa Stroup and Donnie Shaw.

▪ The Center Theatre featured a triple feature horror show with “The Creature from The Black Lagoon,” “The Creature with The Atom Brain” and “The Monster from The Ocean Floor.”

1936

▪ Claude D. Turner, running without opposition for the Ward 4 seat on Fort Mill Town Council, received 11 of the 14 eligible votes cast.

▪ Work was progressing rapidly on the National Guard Armory that the federal government was erecting on East Elliott Street across from the high school athletic fields.

1916

▪ The Graded School Honor Roll included Elizabeth Mills, Thomas Spratt, Keebler Mills, John Cousart and Hortense James.

▪ Playing the Majestic were Bronco Billy in “The Bookseller’s Romance” and Helen Gibson in one of her daring railroad exploits.

This story was originally published October 25, 2016 at 4:48 PM with the headline "This week in Fort Mill History: Do you remember?."