This week in Fort Mill history: Do you remember?

1996

▪ Strom Thurmond, in what he termed the toughest race of his career, defeated Ell Close of Fort Mill in the U.S. Senate Race.

▪ Fort Mill’s volleyball team was State AAA runner up after dropping the state championship 2-0 to Clover.

▪ Martha Kinard with 3,008 votes and incumbent Richard Bates with 2,574 votes won seats on the Fort Mill School Board.

▪ The Fort Mill Yellow Jackets football team closed out the 1996 season with 15-14 victory over Chester to finish with a 3-7 record.

1976

▪ The Fort Mill High School Marching Band, under the direction of John DeLoach, won the program’s first state championship by claiming the State 2A title in Columbia.

▪ At Indian Land High School, Arlene Yarborough was crowned 1976 Homecoming Queen and Kim Braswell was crowned 1976 Carousel Princess.

▪ The Rev. William J. Hollins, Minister of Music and Christian Education for the First Baptist Church, resigned and took a similar position at the First Baptist Church in Greenville.

▪ Jimmy Carter carried Fort Mill on his way to a narrow victory over Gerald Ford in the Presidential election.

1956

▪ Fort Mill’s Yellow Jackets swarmed all over Pageland 33-0. Calvin Price, Shelly Sutton, Johnny Gibson and Bobby Howard led the local boys.

▪ Jo Ann Deason of Enoree, formerly of Fort Mill, was the new South Carolina Maid of Cotton.

1936

▪ Franklin Delano Roosevelt carried 46 of 48 states en route to a landslide victory in the 1936 Presidential election. Only Maine and Vermont sided with Alf Landon.

▪ A truckload of fine unstamped liquor was seized in Fort Mill by Officers McElhaney and Talley. Two men from Charlotte were arrested and charged.

1916

▪ Riverview School, near the Catawba dam, opened with excellent attendance. Miss Lila Haile was in charge of the school.

▪ The Ringling Circus, which played Charlotte recently, lost 40 horses in Birmingham, Ala., when the horse tent ignited.

This story was originally published October 31, 2016 at 5:27 PM with the headline "This week in Fort Mill history: Do you remember?."