MYSTERY PHOTO:  This may be a pretty relevant building this week

The only clues we’ll give you about this building are that the building may have some relevance on Aug. 21 and it is in South Carolina.  Send your best guess to:  editor@charlestoncurrents.com — and make sure to include the name of the town in which you live.  Please also write “Mystery Photo” in the subject line.

The mystery in our last issue had particular relevance to the national debate that went on last week (see Robert Carr’s Focus column today) about Confederate monuments.  As several readers knew, the photo shows the allegorical monument “To the Confederate Defenders of Charleston-Fort Sumter” erected in 1932 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.  It is located in White Point Gardens at the confluence of the Ashley and Cooper rivers.

Hats off to the following mystery photo detectives:  Ausar Vandross, Stephen Yetman, James McMahan and Joe Mendelsohn of Charleston; Chris Brooks and Don McDonough of Mount Pleasant; Charlie Morrison of James Island; Tom Tindall of Edisto Island; Kristina Wheeler of West Ashley in Charleston; Bud Ferillo of Columbia; and George Graf of Palmyra, Va.

Graf sent some additional information about the “Defenders of Charleston” monument: Inscriptions read “To the Confederate Defenders of Charleston, Fort Sumter 1861-1865” and “Count them happy who for their faith and their courage endured a great fight.”  The warrior in the statue is holding a shield with the seal of South Carolina, and the statue’s seven steps represent the original seven states of the Confederacy.”

• 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.