MYSTERY PHOTO: Old house with brown shutters

Here’s a two-story house with some history behind it, but where is it?  (It’s somewhere in eastern South Carolina.) Bonus: Tell us something cool about the house.  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. 9 mystery, “We know where it is, but what is it?” was sent in by Katharine Beard of Camden, who wanted to know more about what the photo illustrated. 

It was a tough one for our photo sleuths, but Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant wrote that it “commemorates the Santee Indians who were widespread in this area and many were forced to relocate to Oklahoma.”

And, boy, did George Graf learn a lot about the sculpture through some of the best sleuthing we’ve heard of.  He writes:

“The sculpture is iron and supposedly modeled after the chief of the Cassique.  I tracked down the person who actually owns the sculpture and property on which it sits.   His father and a few family members own the property of a couple hundred acres which they use for cookouts, retreats and for deer hunting.  It has a pond and small building and protected by a metal gate and warning signs.. … 

“The Charles Towne Landing park was also being redone and one day he and his dad saw the iron sculpture broken in many parts and tossed next to a dumpster with other park debris.  They decided to save the pieces and took it home. Years later, a friend of his who owned a machine shop, let him use it to put the sculpture back together. He said it was a difficult task but worth it, and when finished he put the sculpture up on Tee Vee Road where it currently sits. … He said he traced the sculpture to this Cassique Chief. He thinks the sculpture may have originally been done by a famous Charleston sculptor who recently died.”

Graf also related that it took a big part of a day to track down all of this information, starting with looking for it on Google Maps. Originally, he thought the sculpture was in Orangeburg County, but later figured out it was in Calhoun County, where he was able to figure out the name of the owner through tax maps and phoned him for the story.  “He said he is now thinking about doing a little more research on this and do a write up on his history of this reborn sculpture.”

Outstanding sleuthing, George!  Thanks.

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.