Column: Do you remember?
1995
▪ Anne Springs Close and her children, descendants of the family who created Springs Industries, planned to turn 4,500 acres of land into six neighborhoods.
▪ Upon her retirement, Jeanne Weaver of Tega Cay was honored for her 15 years of service to the Tega Cay Rescue Squad.
▪ Fort Mill High School athletic director Steve Boyd announced that wrestling would be added to the school’s athletic lineup. Ricky Blackman was named as the coach.
▪ Two Tega Cay men, Billy Whitman and Pete Moyer, opened P.B. Friendly’s Restaurant and Bar in the Tega Cay Village shopping center.
1975
▪ Fort Mill’s Yellow Jackets lost the football season opener, 28-6, to a strong Andrew Jackson Volunteer team. Indian Land defeated Carmel Academy of Charlotte, 34-0.
▪ Allison Culp, Marilyn Ervin, and Joanie Foss won first place ribbons at a Camp Springs cheerleading clinic held recently.
▪ The Rev. Jamie D. Stimpson, former pastor at Riverview Presbyterian Church, spoke at the church’s homecoming service. In 1952, Stimpson was named the church’s first pastor.
▪ PN-2 Ray Boone, formerly of Fort Mill, retired from the United States Navy after 24 years of service to his country.
1955
▪ The Ring Brothers Circus, featuring 150 circus artists and performers, appeared at the old ball park on Massey Street.
▪ Russell Wimmer was elected president of the senior class Fort Mill High School. Billy Wilson was elected vice president.
1935
▪ J.H. Hutto of Lexington bought the Norris Café on Main Street and moved his family to Fort Mill.
▪ The Mills team won the 1935 championship of the Fort Mill Softball League two games to one against the Durham Boys.
1915
▪ Statewide prohibition would take effect in South Carolina on Jan. 1, 1916. The act passed by a 2-1 margin at the polls. Fort Mill residents voted 65-12 for prohibition.
▪ The Rev. S.P. Hair of the Fort Mill Baptist Church and professor J.P. Coates returned from a months’ trip to the Panama exhibition.
Compiled by Chip Heemsoth, a lifelong resident of Fort Mill.
This story was originally published September 11, 2015 at 3:10 PM with the headline "Column: Do you remember?."