Sunsets are glorious at this time of year with the evening build-up of clouds. Here’s a relaxing local place to watch the evening ebb, but where is it? 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 Aug. 26 mystery, “This could be the beginning of something good” included a clue in the title. The photo near the Coast Guard station in Charleston shows the beginning of the Low Battery wall along the Ashley River at the intersection of Tradd Street and Murray Boulevard.
Charleston native Henry Horres Jr. knew the answer, observing, “it might be hard for some but not for a true Charlestonian.”
Hats off also to these sleuths who identified the photo: Legare Clement, Jim McMahan and Kristina Wheeler, all of Charleston; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Rose Riordan of Pawleys Island; Jay Altman of Columbia; and Dolly Hinton.
Graf provided this extra information, according to historiccharleston.org, “Tradd Street, which stretches from the Ashley to the Cooper rivers, is one of the original carriage ways laid out in the 1680 “Grand Modell” of Charles Town. Tradition says the street was named for Robert Tradd, said to be the first child of European descent born in the Province. It may instead have been named for his father, Richard Tradd, who by 1679 was living at the northeast corner of present-day Tradd and East Bay.”
- 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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