Charleston Currents – Walterboro

MYSTERY PHOTO: Swampy clue

This must be in a swamp, if you believe the sign. But where? 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 April 29 mystery, “Green art,” came from longtime photographer and reader Charles Boyd of Hanahan, who spied the topiary in Walterboro near a body shop. It wasn’t, as many guessed, in Bishopville where artist Pearl Fryar has a world-renowned field of carved shrubs and trees.

by Andy Brack · 05/06/2019 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY: Is it a castle?

This part of the South Carolina building above looks like a castle. But is it? 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 Dec. 17 mystery, “A Lowcountry building decked out for the holidays,” was a gift from longtime sleuth Bill Segars Hartsville. He sent us a picture of the Fishers of Men Total Man Deliverance Ministry church in downtown Walterboro.

by Charleston Currents · 12/31/2018 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

MYSTERY PHOTO: Locating another mystery downtown

The recent mystery photo of a downtown inspired us to find a photo of another downtown in the Lowcountry. Where is this one? 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.

by Charleston Currents · 09/18/2017 · Comments are Disabled · Mystery Photo, Photos

S.C. ENCYCLOPEDIA: 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 Charleston Currents · 09/18/2017 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia

HISTORY: Walterboro, S.C.

S.C. Encyclopedia | Just after the Revolutionary War, rice planters along the Edisto, Combahee, and Ashepoo Rivers, tired of an annual summer jaunt of fifty miles to Charleston, created an alternate refuge from the malarial swamps closer to home. By the 1790s, among local forests and freshwater springs, they built a village of about twenty log houses, which they called Walterboro, after two brothers whose retreat was prominent among them.

by Special to Charleston Currents · 10/26/2015 · Comments are Disabled · Features, S.C. Encyclopedia