We’re betting this orange building on a contrasting blue background will be a pretty easy mystery for you to solve. What and where is it? Send your best guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live. And if you’ve got a clever mystery photo for our readers, send it to the same address (Try to stump us!)
Our previous Mystery Photo
A gracious reader sent in our most recent mystery, “A brick folly?” It shows the remains of a bell tower at Colonial Dorchester State Historic Site on the Ashley River near Summerville.
Congratulations to all of the readers who identified the structure: Christel Newton of North Charleston; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant; Stephen Yetman of Charleston; Jay Altman of Columbia; Bill Segars of Hartsville; Chalmers Broach of Moncks Corner; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Vickey Middleton of North Charleston; Dan Beaman and Bryan Norwood.
Segars added some detail: “This week you’re at the St. George Parish Church ruins at 300 State Park Rd in Summerville, Dorchester County. St. George was first built in the 1730s with the addition of this bell tower in 1752. It was burned by the British in December of 1781 as they were being driven out of Fort Dorchester by Col. Wade Hampton and Gen. Nathanael Greene. St. George was one of 13 churches burned in South Carolina during the American Revolution. St. George was repaired in 1811 and burned again in 1820 by an accidental fire.”
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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