Seen this before? This agricultural barn may look familiar for a couple of reasons we can think of. Where is it? Send your best guess – plus your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com. In the subject line, write: “Mystery Photo guess.”
Our previous Mystery Photo
The April 6 Mystery Photo was a little tougher than we expected. We figured anyone who had been to Atlanta would remember the gold dome atop its state capitol.
Congratulations to these photo sleuths: Dale Rhodes of Richmond, Va.; Carroll Williamson of Columbia; Craig Jacobs of Spartanburg; Barry Wingard of Florence; and George Graf of Palmyra, Va.
Graf sent along this contextual tidbit: “According to a great story by Allison Hutton at saportareport.com, the need for gold for the capitol dome was answered by the Dahlonega Jaycees in 1957 ….
“The Dahlonega Jaycees took charge. They organized a day for Dahlonegans and others from Lumpkin County to return to their roots and pan for the gold themselves in local streams; they also sought donations from those who still had pieces from decades earlier.
“The pioneering spirit was at work, too, when it came time to deliver the 43 ounces of gold the Jaycees had collected to Atlanta. The gold would make the trip via wagon train, just as the Georgia treasury had in 1807 when the capital moved from Louisville to Milledgeville. On August 4, 1958, seven covered wagons accompanied by “33 adults, 18 children, 15 mules, six horses, one dog, and two State Patrol cars” began the three-day journey from Dahlonega to Atlanta. The gold was proudly conveyed in a chest said to have belonged to William Few, one of the two Georgians (the other was Abraham Baldwin) who had signed the U.S. Constitution. The wagon train traveled just three miles per hour.”
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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