A reader writes that he recently got stuck on his boat on a South Carolina river. So what better to do than snap a picture of this cool bridge. Where is it? Send your guess to feedback@statehousereport.com — and remember to include your name, home city and contact information.
Last week’s mystery, “Looks religious,” was a picture sent in by Thomas Jacobsen of Sitka, Alaska. It shows an old ice house that was part of Bleak Hall Plantation and is now at Botany Bay Plantation Heritage Preserve and Wildlife Management Area on Edisto Island.
Congratulations to Elizabeth Jones and Jay Altman, both of Columbia; Robert Ariail of Camden; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Bill Segars of Hartsville; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas.
Peel provided a little more information on the circa-1840 ice house, one of three remaining outbuildings at the plantation. “The ice house does look like a religious building of sorts. But in this case … looks are definitely deceiving. This building was built with mock tracery windows and doors to emulate a Gothic Revival style, thereby adding some elegance to a boring, but critically functional, outbuilding on the plantation.”
- 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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