So here’s a groovy building somewhere in South Carolina, but where? (This one might be kind of tough.) Send us your guess – as well as your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com.
Hats off to several eagle-eyed readers who correctly identified “Brick build with green door,” although one reader said the door really was blue. The image, sent in by reader Bill Segars of Hartsville, is a magazine building that remains at Fort Johnson on James Island in Charleston County.
Congratulations to those who identified it: Jay Altman and Elizabeth Jones, both of Columbia; Penny Forrester of Tallahassee, Fla.; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Pat Keadle of Wagener; Lawrence Moore of Folly Beach; and David Taylor of Darlington.
Peel provided more information: “Today’s mystery photo is a shot of the Gunpowder Magazine building located at Fort Johnson on the banks of the Ashley River, just 1.4-miles west of Fort Sumter. With a clear, line-of-site shot, it is not surprising to learn that this is the very site that Confederate forces used to fire the first shots of the civil war onto Fort Sumter.
“The fort was named after Sir Nathaniel Johnson (1644 – 1712), who served as the 14th Governor of Carolina from 1703 to 1709. The magazine was built in 1765 and is a brick structure that measures 27-feet long by 20-feet wide. It was buried during the American Civil War by Confederate soldiers, and uncovered in 1931. Fort Johnson and the magazine were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.”
>> Send us a mystery picture. 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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