A reader in Alaska sent along the above photo of a stone cabin. It’s somewhere in South Carolina, but where? Give it a good college try. Send your guess to feedback@statehousereport.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo
Our Nov. 27 photo, “Mystery cabins,” was one of a series of photos snapped by longtime photographer and mystery photo sleuth Bill Segars of Hartsville. It shows the AME Zion Church’s campground, also known as Camp Welfare, in Fairfield County, as described here.
This photo generated guesses of locations from around the state, with readers speculating that the photo was taken everywhere from Daufuskie Island or Lake Murray to St. George and Santee.
Hats off to those who correctly identified Segars’ photo: Steve Willis of Lancaster; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Kevin Mertens of Greenville; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; Henry Eldridge of Tega Cay; Jack Anthony Brant of Yemassee; and George Graf of Palmyra, Va.
Peel shared, “According to Wikipedia, it was founded in 1876, just after the American Civil War, by the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. It is a collection of approximately 100 one-story, frame, weatherboarded cabins (called ‘tents’) arranged in a double ‘U’-shape. The focal point of the camp is the arbor; a rough, gable roofed wooden shelter with wooden benches. Also located at the camp is Zion Church; a frame building with a gable roof surmounted by a belfry built around 1930. Camp Welfare was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.”
- 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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oconee station off hwy 11 in oconee county