Fort Mill, SC. Charming, Southern history.

Articles about Fort Mill People:
Anne Springs Close Receives Pugsley Award in 2001 - Informative.
Retrieved from http://www.rpts.tamu.edu/pugsley/Close.htm on January 20, 2009.

The Contact Man - Thank you Mr. Ken Dixon for providing this unknown history. About Col. Elliott Springs and Willie Patterson, 08.04.08

The following articles are reprinted with the permission of the Fort Mill Times.
Colonel Springs Builds His Office - Published 02.26.04
Doby Family, The, Leaves its Mark on the Fort Mill Area - Published 10.28.04
Hall, Tom, Who was He To Deserve A Whole Street? - Published 09.25.03
Hamilton, Jackson, Made a Mark at Gold Hill Academy - Published 10.20.05
The Rev. Lee Is At Home Here - Published 10.30.03
Pettus, William Declared Ineligible to Serve - Published 04.06
Spratt, Thomas "Kanawah", and How he Came to Befriend the Catawbas -
Published 06.30.05
Spratt, T.D., Records History - Published 01.29.04
Springs, A.B., In the Winter of 1867-'68 (Part 2) - Published 02.15.06
Springs, A.B., In the Winter of 1867-'68 - Published 01.19.06
Springs, Elliott White, "Warbird" - Published 02.24.05
Springs, Elliot, Wrote Fiction - Published 05.06.04
Springs, Elliot, And "Loretto" - Published 03.25.04
Sutton v. Jackson: Who really owned the land? - Published 11.17.05
Mack, Francis, Was A Soldier and Educator In Fort Mill - Published 07.31.03
Rooker, John Rewarded Revolutionary War Veteran’s Pensions - Published 07.06
White, William, If Fort Mill Had A Founder, It Would Be... - Published 06.26.03
White Brothers Battle In War - Published 08.28.03

Honoring Fort Mill's Heroes - Published 05.29.03
There were Knights to Remember in the 1860's - Published 12.15.06
The Soldier's Relief Board During the Civil War - Published 05.26.05

Articles about Fort Mill Places:
Banks Set up School in Fort Mill - Published 06.24.04
Confederate Park - Published 08.04
Fort Mill and the Red Shirts - Published 04.28.05
India Hook Road in Rock Hill, How it Got its Name - Published 06.06
In 1892 Fort Mill Hosts a Huge Wedding - Published 09.22.05
Old Unity Cemetery - Published 08.05
Unity Church Cemetary Dates to 1788 - Published 03.15.06
York County has Peaches and Grapes - Published 07.28.05

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GOLD HILL SCHOOL
Date unknown.
Gold Hill community is part of the Fort Mill School District #4
and is located north of Rock Hill, SC and east of Fort Mill, SC.
Photo courtesy of YCHistory.org.

YOUNGSTERS PLAYING BASEBALL
Children playing baseball in the front yard. Date unknown.
This picture came along with a collection of school insurance photographs.
Do not know if there is a connection to schools.
Photo courtesy of YCHistory.org.

PEOPLE PLAYING CROQUET
Enjoying an afternoon of croquet (participants unknown)
came into the possession of the Library with the school insurance photograph collection. Notice that it is the same area as the
children playing baseball in the photograph above.
Photo courtesy of YCHistory.org.