Charleston Currents – Georgetown County

FOCUS: Brookgreen Gardens offers a magnificent day trip

Staff reports | There couldn’t have been much more of a perfect day than a Sunday day trip to Brookgreen Gardens in Georgetown County. The temperature was mild. Humidity wasn’t anywhere around. And the sun shined a penetrating light on scores of statuaries and thousands of flowers that filled the attraction.

Brookgreen Gardens, known as one of the world’s finest outdoor museums of American figurative sculpture, has a stunning collection of more than 2,700 works by 425 artists.

Take a look at some photos below from the Easter visit. Brookgreen Gardens is about an hour and a half from downtown Charleston. The ticket price is affordable — $18 per adult — and good for seven days.

by Andy Brack · 04/05/2021 · Comments are Disabled · Focus, Good news, Photo Essay

Cummins Theological Seminary, Summerville, S.C.

MYSTERY PHOTO: Lowcountry-style building might be tough to identify

A reader sent in this red-roofed Lowcountry-style house, which makes sense because it’s located in the Lowcountry. But what and where is it? Hope this one isn’t too hard. 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 previous mystery, “It’s not a resort,” sparked some interesting guesses, such as a golf clubhouse on Kiawah and a visitors’ center in Berkeley County. But the image was of the main laboratory building at the Baruch Institute in Georgetown County …

by Andy Brack · 01/28/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: Where is this chandelier?

This large, odd-looking chandelier isn’t anywhere near Charleston, but you may have seen it somewhere on your travels or research. Send your best guess to: editor@charlestoncurrents.com – and please make sure to include your name and hometown. In the subject line, write: “Mystery Photo guess.”

The last issue’s Mystery Photo featured a barn-like structure on stilts that turns out to be a “winnowing” barn for rice located at Mansfield Plantation in Georgetown County.

by Charleston Currents · 10/16/2017 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

HISTORY: All Saints Parish

S.C. Encyclopedia | Established on March 16, 1778, All Saints Parish comprised the Waccamaw Neck of what came to be Horry and Georgetown Counties. In 1721 the peninsula became part of Prince George Winyah Parish, but separated from the rest of the parish by the Waccamaw River, it remained isolated and sparsely settled for decades. Because they could only reach […]

by Andy Brack · 06/08/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia