Column: Do you remember?

1995

▪ The Fort Mill High School band finished in second place at the Bands of America Southeast Regional Championship at East Tennessee State University.

▪ A Fort Mill couple, George and Jane McCormick, endowed a fund for his alma mater, the Citadel, with $1,000,000.

▪ Tega Cay residents pleaded with city council not to cut a position in the city’s police department to avoid raising taxes.

▪ Evans Newell, a Fort Mill music evangelist, released his first recording, “More Than a Dream,” which consisted of 10 songs.

1975

▪ Mayor Lunsford McFadden announced that Larry Grant, young Fort Mill attorney and a native of Fort Mill, had accepted the post of City Judge.

▪ Fort Mill’s Yellow Jackets football team continued their winning ways with a 35-14 victory over the Strom Thurmond Rebels. Jody Stegall and Gerry Neeley made big plays for the locals.

▪ Navy Gunner’s Mate Seaman Harry E. Silvers embarked on a Mediterranean deployment aboard the USS Bigelow.

▪ Fort Mill City Council voted to name the street passing through the new low income housing development, Bozeman Drive, in honor of the late James D. Bozeman.

1955

▪ The passenger station at the Southern Railway depot, in use for 50 years, was torn down.

▪ A new grocery store, Main Street Grocery, opened in the former Crane’s Grocery storefront on Main Street.

1935

▪ Arthur Steele paid a $15 fine for operating a dance hall in Fort Mill Township, which was in violation of a state statue.

▪ A state home economics supervisor commented that Fort Mill High School’s home economics department may be used as a model by other schools.

1915

▪ B.E. Patterson was elected to fill the unexpired term of A. R. McElhaney. Patterson won by an 89-82 vote against W. M. Carothers.

▪ The Southern Railway’s all-steel through train, which carried passengers from New York to Augusta via Fort Mill, began operations.

This story was originally published October 16, 2015 at 4:20 PM with the headline "Column: Do you remember?."