This might look like any old field. But it’s not. Three-part question: What is it, where is it and why is it important? Send your guess about the location of this photo to feedback@statehousereport.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo
Our March 29 mystery, “Interesting old building” seemed to be not much of a mystery for people in the Upstate, particularly Lancaster, which is hope to the Lancaster and Chester Railway Building on South Main Street.
Congratulations to these sleuths: Charles Davis of Aiken, Steve Willis of Lancaster; Lewis Spearman; Don Gordon of Mount Pleasant; George Graf of Palmyra, Va..; Dale Rhodes of Richmond, Va.; Jay Altman of Columbia; Don Clark and Bill Segars, both of Hartsville; Henry Eldridge of Tega Cay; Philip Cromer of Beaufort; and Faith Line of Anderson.
Graf shared this: “The Lancaster & Chester Railroad Museum was created to give a photographic history of the L&C since its inception in 1896 and also of all other railroads in South Carolina. The museum has over 600 mounted photographs and display cases of railroad memorabilia. In addition, the museum has a large operating HO scale layout of the L&C.”
Willis asked us whether we’d share this: “Are you going to mention that when the Colonel opened it he had Gypsy Rose Lee present as he had named her the Railroad Vice President in charge of unveiling? He was quite a character.”
Part of an old cotton seed house can be seen in the left of the photo, writes Clark.
- 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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