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MYSTERY PHOTO: Rural and rustic

Here’s a rustic, rural-looking photo provided by a loyal reader and photographer. It’s in South Carolina, but where? Send your best guess – plus your name and hometown – to charlestoncurrents@gmail.com. In the subject line, write: “Mystery Photo guess.” (If you don’t include your contact information, we can’t give you credit!)

Last issue’s mystery: Before we identify the May 21 mystery, let us apologize to any of you who tried to send a guess for much of this week.

by Charleston Currents · 05/28/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: At the top of the building

This week’s mystery focuses on the top of a South Carolina building. That’s the only clue you get. Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com with “Mystery Photo” in the subject line. Please make sure to include your name and contact information.

Last issue’s mystery: The April 23 Mystery Photo, scrubbed by us of the identifying name carved in stone, showed the J. Waites Waring federal courthouse annex near the Four Corners of Law at Meeting and Broad streets.

by Charleston Currents · 04/30/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: Stately building with lots of bricks

This stately building should look familiar to some people across South Carolina. Send your guess to editor@charlestoncurrents.com with “Mystery Photo” in the subject line. Please make sure to include your name and contact information.
Last issue’s mystery
The Feb. 26 mystery, shown at right, is the Dillon County Courthouse, an ornate building smack in the middle of a rural Pee Dee county.

Hats off to several sleuths who correctly identified the building, constructed just over 100 years ago: George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Chris Brooks of Mount Pleasant; Tom Tindall of Edisto Island; Cheryl Smithem of Summerville; Bill Segars of Hartsville; and Jennifer Bozard of Charleston.

by Charleston Currents · 03/05/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

Colleton County Courthouse, Walterboro, S.C.

HISTORY: Colleton County

S.C. Encyclopedia | First visited by Robert Sandford in 1666 while he was reconnoitering the southeastern seaboard of North America for Lord Anthony Ashley Cooper, Colleton County was one of three original counties organized in the English province of Carolina in 1682. However, Colleton was divided into three parishes by 1730 (St. Bartholomew’s, St. Paul’s, and St. John’s Colleton), which took over most county responsibilities, including oversight of elections.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 01/11/2016 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia