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MYSTERY: A gazebo or maybe something else?

MYSTERY: A gazebo or maybe something else?

This week’s mystery surely looks like a gazebo, but it’s probably something else.  What and where?  Send your best guess – plus your name and hometown – to editor@charlestoncurrents.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
Avid reader and photographer Bill Segars of Hartsville snapped the photo of the June 1 mystery, which is Temple Sinai in Sumter.  It’s been in the news recently because its social hall and educational center have been converted into a new Jewish History Center. 

by · 06/11/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos
HISTORY:  Palmetto Pigeon Plant

HISTORY: Palmetto Pigeon Plant

While serving as an infantry captain during World War I, the Sumter attorney Wendell M. Levi set up the Pigeon Section of the U.S. Army Signal Corps, having had experience raising homing pigeons as a hobby. Harold Moïse, an air force pilot and a graduate civil engineer with building expertise, shared Levi’s interest in pigeons. In 1923, the two men founded the Palmetto Pigeon Plant on 13 acres of farmland in Sumter County and recruited state senator Davis Moïse to be vice president of the firm.

by · 03/16/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia