Fort Mill, South Carolina

Fort Mill is a town in York County, South Carolina, in the southeastern United States, and a growing suburb of Charlotte, North Carolina. The town was established in 1873 and takes its name from its position between two landmarks, a fort that British colonists built to protect the Catawba people from raiding parties and Webb's Mill. Scots-Irish settlers began arriving in the 1750s and 1760s, and textile mills drove growth through the late nineteenth century. After many of those mills closed, the town kept expanding as a commuter suburb. Fort Mill is remembered as the place where the last full meeting of the Confederate cabinet was held in 1865, and its Confederate Park holds a monument to enslaved laborers on the Confederate side. It has a humid subtropical climate, and the 2020 census counted 24,521 residents.