This week in Fort Mill history: Do you remember?

1996

▪ A child wrote in a letter to Santa that he wanted a dirt bike to ride around his field and to do better in school.

▪ Ed Brown of Springs Street, Fort Mill, was elected as head of Catawba Lodge No. 56. Scott Patterson was Senior Warden.

▪ Dale Fandel of Tega Cay led a group of boosters in planning a concession stand for the Fort Mill High School baseball field.

▪ Fort Mill’s boys’ basketball team lost to Providence Day 55-70 and beat Buford 51-26. The girls swept both teams by 45-38 and 65-24 scores.

1976

▪ Grady Ervin was elected as Alderman from Ward 2 claiming 201 of 355 votes cast. Fort Mill voters favored a leash law by a 216-136 margin.

▪ Fort Mill’s basketball teams did not start the season off well. Both the boys and girls lost to Lancaster and Andrew Jackson high schools.

▪ Three members of the Fort Mill Woman’s Club, Mrs. Leroy Phillips, Mrs. Ronald Yarborough and Mrs. George Rhinehardt, III were pictured planting red maple trees at Unity Cemetery.

▪ Bill Walters, Maple Circle, Fort Mill received the Palmetto Award at the York District Boy Scouts of America annual banquet.

1956

▪ One of the city’s most congested areas, White Street in front of the Fort Mill Plant, would soon be alleviated as work began on widening the street.

▪ Seventy-five robed Ku Klux Klansmen, riding in 26 cars, processed from Lancaster through Fort Mill to the home of a family with dire needs and presented them with food, clothes and toys.

1936

▪ The Royal Hotel in Lancaster, owned by Capt. Elliott White Springs, sustained $100,000 in damages as the result of a fire.

▪ J.L. Pruitt of Spartanburg, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, was in Fort Mill in connection with the work of the league.

1916

▪ The two banks of Fort Mill would observe shorter hours after Jan. 1, closing their doors at 2 p.m. instead of 4 p.m.

▪ The York County Delegation was asked to raise the pay of Miss Minnie Lee Garrison, agent for the York County Home Demonstration department.

This story was originally published December 19, 2016 at 4:15 PM with the headline "This week in Fort Mill history: Do you remember?."