Here’s a deteriorating building that may have historic importance. Where is it and what’s its story? 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.
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Our Sept.13 mystery, “Old house with brown shutters,” showed the Thorntree House in Kingstree, S.C. The house, dating to the mid 18th century also is known as the Witherspoon House.
Hats off to these mystery photo detectives who knew the answer: George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Ross Lenhart of Pawleys Island; Philip Cromer of Beaufort; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; Dave Taylor of Darlington; and Don Clark of Hartsville.
Lenhart shared that the house is the oldest surviving residence in the Pee Dee and is open to the public. Cromer said the house, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, was moved from its plantation site to its current location in a memorial park.
For more context, Graf provided this information according to findagrave.com: “John Witherspoon was the third child of John and Janet/Jennett Witherspoon to live to adulthood and arrived from Northern Ireland with family into Charleston, South Carolina in 1734. After his marriage in Northern Ireland, he lived about nine years in the Parish of Graba near Canningburn Mills. They then came with family to the USA and lived at the Bluff near Kingstree until 1749; and then they moved to a 300 acre place situated between the Lower Bridge on Black River and Murray’s Ferry on the Santee and built a two-story home (Thorntree) which still stands renovated as a historic entity in Kingstree, S. C.”
- 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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