Here’s an imposing statue located somewhere in South Carolina. But who does it depict, where is it and what’s his story (briefly)? Send your best guess of what it is to feedback@statehousereport.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo
Our June 12 image, “Lots of river rock,” showed the Tamassee DAR School in the extreme northeast tip of the state in Oconee County. Hats off to those who identified the photo: Jay Altman of Columbia; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Jacie Godfrey of Florence; and George Graf of Palmyra, Va.
Altman shared this about the school: “ Tamassee DAR School was founded by the Daughters of the American Revolution and opened in 1919. The first class consisted of 23 ‘boarding’ female students. In 1932, the school admitted its first ‘boarding’ male students. In the 1970s the school shifted from a primarily agricultural and industrialized program to serving children in poverty to serving children in crisis. Tamassee transformed from a private boarding school to a children’s home. In March of 2020, the Board of Trustees decided to sunset the residential program, and focus on supplemental education programs for students in Oconee County.”
- 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 to: feedback@statehousereport.com and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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