This object found in South Carolina has a particular importance. What is the object and why is it important in South Carolina? Send your best guess – plus your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com. In the subject line, write: “Mystery Photo guess.”
Last week’s mystery
Contributing photographer Michael Kaynard of Charleston sent along a snapshot of a big gun that confounded some. It looked familiar to us and we whacked our forehead when he told us it was a gun at an entrance to Fort Moultrie on Sullivan’s Island.
Congratulations to these sleuths who got it right: George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Philip Cromer of Beaufort; Harvey Shackelford of Newberry; and Gary Crossley of Charleston.
Several versions of Fort Moultrie have existed, but perhaps the most famous – the one that has ties to the state’s palmetto flag – is the original. According to the S.C. Encyclopedia, it “was the site of the June 28, 1776, American victory in the Revolutionary War. Fort Moultrie I, the Revolutionary War–era fort, was replaced in 1798 by Fort Moultrie II, which was followed in 1809 by Fort Moultrie III, which served as a military post until 1947.” Learn more here.
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