MYSTERY PHOTO: Top of a building

After two weeks of relatively easy mysteries, this one might be tough.  So tough, in fact, that you might need a hint:  It’s somewhere in South Carolina but not in the Charleston area.  Send your guess to:  editor@charlestoncurrents.com.  And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.

Our previous Mystery Photo

Our Sept. 17 mystery showed a different kind of 21 Club located at 21 Magazine Street in Charleston – site of the Old City Jail.  Congrats to all of the photo sleuths who identified the old building: Stephen Yetman of Charleston; Marnie Huger of Richmond, Va.; Chris Brooks and Tom Martin, both of Mount Pleasant; Paul Hedden and Archie Burkel, both of James Island; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; and Bill Segars of Hartsville.  Thanks also to Dale Rhodes of Richmond, Va., for suggesting the jail as a mystery photo.

Burkel said she believe the old jail is the most haunted building in the country.  Segars told us the jail was originally built as the county’s jail and was used by the county until 1939.

Graf shared a story that we didn’t know:  “The infamous Lavinia Fisher was held in the Old Charleston Jail.  According to findagrave.com, Lavinia Fisher was hanged in 1820 but the crime was highway robbery— a capital offense at the time—not murder. She was a member of a large gang of highwaymen who operated out of two houses in the Backcountry outside of Charleston, the Five Mile House and the Six Mile House. The legend of Lavinia Fisher had probably already started but her (true) last words to the crowd at her hanging guaranteed her immortality: ‘If you have a message you want to send to hell, give it to me—I’ll carry it.’”

• Send us a mystery:  If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!)   Send it along to  editor@charlestoncurrents.com.