It’s 10:16 in the morning in this photo, but where was it taken? Send your name and hometown – along with your guess – to feedback@statehousereport.com.
Last week’s mystery, “Old church,” shows the First African Baptist Church on New Street in Beaufort where it is part of the Reconstruction Era National Historic Network. Congratulations to eight regularly-published sleuths who identified it: Elizabeth Jones, Jean Prothro and Jay Altman, all of Columbia; Jacie Godfrey of Florence; Bill Segars of Hartsville; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; and David Lupo of Mount Pleasant.
The church, built in 1885, remains active. According to Peel, “Among the church’s earliest members was Robert Smalls (1839 – 1915), an African-American hero of the Civil War and a U.S. congressman during Reconstruction. A monument to Smalls is on the church grounds.”
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