Fort Mill history: Do you remember?

1996

▪ The Fort Mill School Board overruled the district superintendent’s decision to demote his assistant and reassign two other administrators, ruling that he did not have the authority to make those changes.

▪ Despite its 2-4 mark in the regular season, the Fort Mill swim team, coached by Jenna Bates, was a close second to Lancaster in the annual Leroy Springs Aquatics Championship.

▪ Don Pittman of Fort Mill was named assistant principal at Indian Land High School. Pittman would continue as softball coach and biology teacher.

▪ A request from the Town of Fort Mill for a $500,000 grant to repair dilapidated houses was turned down.

1976

▪ Sammie Potts, a 1963 graduate of George Fish High School, was awarded a Doctorate in Education Degree from Amherst College in Amherst, Mass.

▪ Fort Mill’s Planning and Zoning Commission rejected the rezoning of eight acres on Leonidas and Spratt Streets from single unit residential to multiunit.

▪ Richard M. Hinton, a former champion who held the course record at the Fort Mill Golf Course, defeated Jimmy Stevenson for the annual Fort Mill Club Championship.

▪ Fort Mill officials were contacted by a prominent motion picture company which was interested in Fort Mill as a location for a major production.

1956

▪ Fort Mill High School football coach Pete Reynolds announced that the team would train in Myrtle Beach Aug. 19-24 and would reside at Springmaid Beach.

▪ Children pictured in the Fort Mill’s Future Citizens feature included Jimmy and Linda Mauk and John Henry III and Delia Henry.

1936

▪ Capt. Elliott W. Springs was back in Fort Mill after a hurried trip to Germany with his family. Capt. Springs returned on the German Zeppelin Hindenburg, landing at Lakehurst, N.J.

▪ The Rock Hill Lumber Company opened a branch yard on upper Main Street, Fort Mill with Tom Woods as manager.

1916

▪ Flood waters destroyed many bridges, flooded cities and towns and many cotton mills along the Catawba, Broad and Yadkin Rivers. The only bridge between Fort Mill and Rock Hill was washed away.

▪ The annual picnic of the Fort Mill Presbyterian Church was largely attended and enjoyed by all.

This story was originally published July 18, 2016 at 10:41 AM with the headline "Fort Mill history: Do you remember?."