Published: Wednesday, Oct. 07, 2009 / Updated: Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009 08:19 PM
This week in history - Oct. 7, 2009
1989
Fort Mill Township, as well as the rest of the area, was continuing slow but steady progress in cleaning up the mess Hurricane Hugo left behind.
Tom Hall, Fort Mill's World War I Congressional Medal of Honor Winner, was memorialized at the unveiling of a monument at Eli Bailes Post 43 of the American Legion.
The Fort Mill High School Marching Band brought home the Old Dominion Dixie Classic Grand Champion Award won in Danville, Va.
Fort Mill schools were suffering because of a $1 million outstanding tax anticipation note that had not been paid by Heritage USA.
1969
Teri Bayne, Fort Mill High School senior, was chosen as 1969 Fort Mill Carrousel Princess. Kay Reid was crowned Fort Mill High School Homecoming Queen.
J. H. Nesbitt, Fort Mill schools superintendent, received a letter from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare stating that the local schools were in full compliance with the Civil Rights Act.
William H. (Billy) Barron of Fort Mill joined the Bob Hill Realty firm as a salesman.
Donna Stroup earned a place on the 1969-70 Garnet Circle, academic honor society at Erskine College.
1949
James O. Hammond, seaman USN, was serving as a crew member aboard the landing ship USS-419 which was participating in "Operation Miki" in the Pacific.
John Atwood Helms suffered a concussion and internal injuries after falling from a 35-foot pole in the village of Springs Mill No. 1 and landing on his head.
1929
A Ford automobile, equipped with a smokescreen and containing 102 gallons of liquor, was captured on the Doby's Ferry road. The driver escaped.
The York County Board of Education approved the consolidation of the Fort Mill and Massey school districts making Fort Mill the only township in the county having only one school district.
1909
Samuel Lindsey, sergeant at the penitentiary farm near Columbia, was given the superintendency of the York chain gang.
Work began on a building on Booth Street, near the corner of Main, which when completed, would be the new home of the Times.
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