Fort Mill Times (Fort Mill, S.C.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
1,366 issues from 1900 to 1927, published in Fort Mill, South Carolina, digitised for Chronicling America.
The weekly Fort Mill Times (1892-current) came into existence just as the forces of industrialization and development were starting to remake the economic and physical landscape of York County, South Carolina. Sadly, many early issues are missing, and much of what is known about the Fort Mill Times in its formative years has been gleaned from the Yorkville Enquirer, published in the nearby town of Yorkville. By most accounts, the Fort Mill Times began as the Fort Mill News, which was established by William Benjamin Ardrey in 1890. Ardrey chose as its slogan, “Do good unto all men,” presumably in reference to Galatians 6:10. In 1892, Baptist minister John Eugene McManaway assumed ownership, and from all appearances, used his platform to conduct a long-running public feud with John Lawton Harley, the minister to the Methodist churches in Fort Mill. The latest available issue of the Fort Mill News is dated June 15, 1892.
That same year, William Rufus Bradford, Sr., launched the Fort Mill News (he had previously published the Fort Mill Catawbian). In September 1893, Bradford left Fort Mill to accept a job with the United States Government Printing Office in Washington, D.C. The Fort Mill Times struggled over the next seven years, suspending publication on at least two documented occasions. In 1900, William Bradford returned to Fort Mill, ready to reestablish his control of the paper. On March 24, 1900, the Yorkville Enquirer gushed, “Fort Mill again has a weekly newspaper, and…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Fort Mill, South Carolina, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress