There’s a pretty good clue in this photo that will suggest where it was taken, but if you don’t see it, this mystery photo could be pretty tough. 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 May 27 mystery, “This mystery should be pretty easy,” showed a guy in Revolutionary War-era garb outside of the Old Exchange on East Bay Street at Broad Street in downtown Charleston.
We thought it would be pretty easy, but fewer readers correctly identified the photo than we expected. Congratulations to Bud Ferillo of Columbia; David Brown of Daniel Island; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Marnie Huger of Richmond, Va.; Deborah Getter of Johns Island; and Bill Segars of Hartsville.
Huger, a Charleston native, shared: “South Carolina declared independence from Great Britain from the steps of the Exchange on March 28, 1776. The local S.C. Patriots, led by Gen. William Moultrie, walled up 10,000 pounds of gunpowder in a secret chamber created by bricking in a false exterior wall. This was never discovered by the British during its occupation 1780-1782.”
Getter added the Eliza Lucas Pinckney chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution still meet in the building on the second Sunday of every month from September through May.
- 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.
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