Do you remember?

1996

▪ Fort Mill’s school board decided to build two new middle schools. The decision was made to replace Fort Mill Middle School with a new facility and add a new middle school next to Gold Hill Elementary.

▪ Chris Burgert was named Firefighter of the Year and Tommy Boatwright and Henry Bryant received 20-year service pins from the Fort Mill Fire Department.

▪ Ice, followed by snow storm, shut down local schools for three days. Other activities were impacted by as well.

▪ Garrett Johnson, fifth-grader at Gold Hill Elementary School, and Katie Fols, eighth-grader at Fort Mill Middle School, were winners in the Lt. Governor’s Writing Awards Program.

1976

▪ Denise Davis was crowned Miss Black Fort Mill at a pageant held at the A.O. Jones School auditorium.

▪ Tega Cay, the 1,600-acre recreation oriented housing development on Lake Wylie, was sold for $14 million.

▪ New business license fees in Fort Mill included motion picture theater, $50, snowball truck or cart, $15, funeral home, $35, fortune teller, $1,000, blacksmith shop, $10.

▪ A double feature playing at the Ft. Roc Drive-In featured “Mandingo” with Susan George and “The Klansman” with Richard Burton and Lee Marvin.

1956

▪ USAF S/Sgt. Frank Young returned to French Morocco after a 30-day Christmas leave in Fort Mill visiting his wife, Sue and son, Mike.

▪ L.T. Chambers sold his service station on White Street to O.H. (Curly) Sain who had disposed of his station on Main Street the previous week.

1936

▪ Fort Mill people were gratified to learn that a large addition was to be made to mill No. 1 of the local Springs Mills.

▪ Fort Mill’s Fire Department was called out twice on the same day, a rarity. The first call was for a home on Railroad Avenue ant the second for a ceiling fire in a Main Street store.

1916

▪ The old barracks on Booth Street was being remodeled. Mr. J. Leo Capps was to open a wood repair shop in the building.

▪ E. Frank Phillips, bookkeeper for McElhaney and Co., accepted a position with the L&C Railway in Lancaster.

This story was originally published December 30, 2015 at 3:35 PM with the headline "Do you remember?."