This Week in Fort Mill history

1996

▪ Only hours after the Fort Mill School Board was sworn in, embattled school superintendent Dr. Michael Basham resigned.

▪ The Indian Land volleyball team, coached by Tamara Jacobus, won the State Class A championship by defeating Branchville 3-0. It was the school’s first state championship.

▪ Efforts were unsuccessful in keeping Dr. George Dye as Senior Pastor of the First Baptist Church of Fort Mill.

▪ Erskine Bowles, husband of Fort Mill native Crandall Close Bowles, was named White House Chief of Staff by President Clinton.

1976

▪ Melissa Haire was named Miss Fort Mill Junior High for 1976-’77. Sandy Brown was runner up.

▪ Fort Mill won the 3-AA conference football championship with a 41-0 victory over Buford. Indian Land won the Conference 3-A championship downing Mt. Pisgah 18-12.

▪ Three men, Grady Ervin, Joe Honeycutt and Tommy Phillips qualified for the Fort Mill City Council Ward 2 special election.

▪ John C. Bryant, district governor, District 32-D, Lions International, was the principal speaker at the Fort Mill Lions Club meeting.

1956

▪ President Dwight David Eisenhower and Vice-President Richard Milhouse Nixon were reelected as the Republican ticket carried 41 states. Fort Mill and South Carolina voted for the Democratic ticket of Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver.

▪ The Yellow Jackets defeated the Lewisville Lions 34-6 in Memorial Stadium. The Jackets finished the season with a 7-2-1 record.

1936

▪ Capt. E. W. Springs, company president, announced that Springs Cotton Mills would soon erect a large weave room at Mill No. 2 in Fort Mill.

▪ The Fort Mill High School football team disbanded after a season that was disappointing to the team and friends of the school.

1916

▪ Mr. William H. Parks, 68, widely known and esteemed Fort Mill man, died at his Forrest Street home. Burial was in the new Unity Cemetery.

▪ In a very hard fought and close game played in Fort Mill, Rock Hill defeated the local boys 6-0.

This story was originally published November 8, 2016 at 11:21 PM with the headline "This Week in Fort Mill history."