Here’s a funky scene with which you might be familiar if you travel South Carolina’s backroads. What is it and where is it? Send us your guess – as well as your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com.
More than two dozen people, including several newbies, correctly identified last week’s mystery, “Water bottles,” as being the location of God’s Acre Healing Spring just outside of Blackville.
Elizabeth Jones of Columbia noted that the legal “owner” of the land is a little different: “What’s special about the photo is the person to whom it was deeded — God! The owner of the land where the curiously beneficial spring sprouts deeded an acre of land around it to God because he believed no person should claim and control the mineral spring. People travel from all over to fill their containers with the water that’s purported to have healing properties.”
Others who identified the spring were: Frank Bouknight of Summerville; Steve Willis of Lancaster; Peggy Reuis, Daniel Ruple and Melissa Hansen, all of Blackville; Diane Humphries of Lexington; Charles Ford of Georgetown; Penny Forrester of Tallahassee, Fla.; Truett Jones of Summerton; Will Bradley of Las Vegas, Nevada; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Pat Keadle of Wagener; Jay Altman and Rosemarie Lankford, both of Columbia; Lisa Daff of Cordova; Barry Wingard of Florence; George Graf of Palmyra, Virginia; Megan Browne of James Island; and Bill Segars of Hartsville. Five people identified the sprints, but didn’t offer their hometowns: Jonetria Brown, Tony Brown, Chelsea Reeves, Pat Rosenthal and Ann Patterson.
>> 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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