Do you remember?

1995

▪ Final approval was given to demolish the Majestic Theatre building on Confederate Street. The Majestic was a movie house at this location from 1939-1949.

▪ A 75-year-old Fort Mill institution, Martin’s Drug Store, at 213 Main St. closed its doors. Owner Richard Little sold the business to Revco.

▪ The Fort Mill swim team finished second in the Leroy Springs aquatics in Lancaster. Fort Mill was four time defending champion.

▪ Construction was set to begin on the first phase of Avery Lakes, Fort Mill’s affordable housing community on Steele Street.

1975

▪ Two historic structures on Fort Mill’s Main Street, the Bank of Fort Mill building and the city hall, were soon to be vacated.

▪ The Fort Mill Women’s All-Stars advanced to the finals of the South Carolina Recreation Society Central District softball tournament. The team was led by Cindy Massey and Linda Massey.

▪ Catawba Lodge No. 56, AFM, let a contract for the razing of a large former residence on Tom Hall Street and the erection of a new lodge building on the site.

▪ Richard S. Carter of Fort Mill was one of two University of South Carolina students to be commissioned as Second Lieutenants in the United States Air Force.

1955

▪ The possibility of a new Post Office building in Fort Mill, promised by officials of the Federal Government more than 15 years earlier, was once again on the table.

▪ L.A. Graham Jr., of Fort Mill, was appointed to a five-year term on the newly created York County Planning and Development Board.

1935

▪ T.N. Alexander, 92, one of the four surviving Confederate veterans living in this area, spent the week with his niece, Mrs. W. H. Windle, in upper Fort Mill.

▪ Willie Robben, 17-year-old Red River resident who worked in Fort Mill, died after being run over by a train in Chester.

1915

▪ The summer term of the Gold Hill School was underway with Miss Minnie Garrison as teacher.

▪ Company G of the First Regiment, National Guard, South Carolina, departed by train for the Isle of Palms, Charleston, for a 10-day encampment.

This story was originally published July 20, 2015 at 9:49 AM with the headline "Do you remember?."