This Week in Fort Mill history: Do you remember?

1997

▪ Fort Mill Town Council hired retired Fort Mill educator Bob Jones as interim town manager until a permanent manager could be hired.

▪ A new business, A Lube Will Do, opened on S.C. 160 East in Indian Land with Aubrey Kohut as owner and operator.

▪ Scenes of Fort Mill Telephone Company’s past and future were on the cover of the new directory.

▪ The town’s first two phones connected a drug store and the pharmacist’s home.

▪ Remnants of Hurricane Danny deluged Fort Mill Township and Indian Land in one of the heaviest rains on record, eight inches of rain fell in 24 hours.

1977

▪ The Fort Mill swim team won the annual Leroy Springs Aquatic Championship for the third consecutive year.

▪ The Rev. Mickey G. Smith, pastor of the Fort Mill Church of the Nazarene, accepted the pastorate of the Church of the Nazarene in McComb, Miss.

▪ William A. Slagle, a native of Fort Mill, recently had published a collection of his poems entitled “Was by Was”. Slagle was married to the former Gayle Stamper also of Fort Mill.

▪ Margie McGuire and Brenda Pettus of Fort Mill were members of the Roberts Paint Co. team that won the S.C. Women’s Bowling Association tournament.

1957

▪ A&P officials announced that the Fort Mill super market had been honored as one of ten stores in the Carolinas to be cited for outstanding service and courtesy.

▪ Recent movies at the Center included “Tammy and the Bachelor” with Debbie Reynolds, “Bernadine” with Pat Boone and Terry Moore, and “The Prince and the Showgirl” With Marilyn Monroe.

1937

▪ The disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator, Capt. Fred Noonan in the Equatorial Pacific, was written off as one of aviation’s unsolved mysteries.

▪ Howard Patterson, popular young Fort Mill man, became manager of the 20th Century Billiard Room on Main Street.

1917

▪ The first draft under the Military Service Act of 1917 was held. More than a million men were selected.

▪ The new steel bridge of the Southern Railway, located three miles south of Fort Mill, which would replace the bridge destroyed in the freshnet of 1916, was nearing completion.

This story was originally published July 22, 2017 at 9:57 PM with the headline "This Week in Fort Mill history: Do you remember?."