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Published: Tuesday, Mar. 05, 2013 / Updated: Monday, Mar. 04, 2013 05:19 PM

This Week in History

1993

• Fort Mill students earning a 4.0 grade-point average during the winter semester at Winthrop included Matthew E. Carswell III, Crystal S. Deese, Erica Faye Oallither and Sandra Griffin.

• The Fort Mill Times was honored with 14 awards, six first place honors and named the best newspaper in its circulation category by the South Carolina Press Association.

• Meredith Borel, 14, of Leonidas Street, was awarded second place in the State American Legion Oratorical contest.

• Fort Mill’s girls were defeated 57-36 by Broome in the first round of the State basketball tournament. Indian Land’s girls also fell in the first round, 54-35 to Landrum.

1973

• Ronnie Henson, 20, of Rock Hill was arrested inside Martin Drug Company and charged with breaking and entering and resisting arrest.

• Len Ketner accepted a position with the Fort Mill Recreation Department as an assistant to Howard Knox, department director.

• An ad hoc committee was formed at Winthrop College to study the possibility of starting a male intercollegiate basketball program.

• A South Carolina highway department spokesman stated I-77 should be open between the North Carolina line and the Cherry Road interchange in early 1974.

1953

• Mrs. J.W. Hipp was named “Woman of the Year” by the Gold Hill Home Demonstration Club.

• Mrs. Annie Parks Bradford, 75, highly esteemed Fort Mill woman, died at her Tom Hall Street home.

1933

• A young boy named Ferrell found a large number of Indian arrow points near his home on Steele Creek road.

• Work on adding baseball and football fields at the high school on Tom Hall Street was underway.

1913

• Mr. Eli Parks, who moved to Fort Mill from Summerfield, N.C., opened a general repair business in the shop near the baseball park.

• Gov. Blease ordered a primary to be held in Fort Mill on March 15, to fill the office of magistrate made vacant by the death of John w. McElhaney.

Compiled by Chip Heemsoth, a lifelong resident of Fort Mill.