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This Week in History - August 27, 2008
(Published August 26, 2008)
1998: The Rev. Ralph Riley stands in front of the church he helped shepherd for 16 years, First Baptist Church of Fort Mill. Rev. Riley had recently announced his retirement.

Do you remember?

1988

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• A Cessna 150, piloted by Jeffery Clyde Huntley, 31, of Mint Hill, N.C., crashed in a field in Indian Land. Huntley suffered minor injuries.

• A caboose, long abandoned at Heritage USA, was selected as the new office of the Fort Mill Chamber of Commerce. The caboose was to be relocated to downtown Fort Mill.

• The Fort Mill Yellow Jackets football team lost a heartbreaker to Great Falls, 7-10. Indian Land defeated Blacksburg, 13-7.

• Todd Barfield and Brad Deal, Fort Mill High School juniors, were chosen as pages for U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.).

1968

• The Belk store on Main Street, Fort Mill's oldest and largest department store, closed as the Rock Hill Mall opened on Cherry Road. The mall housed a new Belk store.

• Rev. Edward R. Bradham Jr., was replaced by Dr. John Mason Stapleton Jr., as pastor of St. John's Methodist Church.

• Bayles Mack, Fort Mill attorney, was a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

• Fort Mill won the South Carolina Recreation Society Fast Pitch Softball Tournament played in Fort Mill.

1948

• The 11th case of polio was confirmed in Fort Mill. The quarantine that restricted the activities of children under the age of 16 continued and the opening of school was delayed indefinitely.

• Adam Goudelock defeated Oscar Hammond by 27 votes in the race for Fort Mill Township commissioner.

1928

• One of the oldest families in Fort Mill left the area when Mr. and Mrs. E.W. Kimbrell and children moved to Davidson College.

• Capt. George W. Potts of Fort Mill recorded the highest score on the pistol range at the officers training school at Fort Screven, Ga.

1908

• The Catawba River at the Catawba dam was up 52 feet and rising. The phone line was down between Fort Mill and Rock Hill and the entire corn crop in the river bottoms was was lost.

• W.J. Stewart, the ginner, was brushing up his machinery and preparing for the cotton season.