The reader who sent in this tranquil photo said it might be too hard to identify as few people have seen the building from this angle. But let’s give it a try — what and where is it? Send your guess to feedback@statehousereport.com — and remember to include your name, home city and contact information.
Last week’s mystery, “House with an interesting past,” was sent in by avid reader Barry Wingard of Florence, It shows, as detective George Graf of Palmyra, Va., wrote, a “heck of a transformation in saving a historic property,” notably the main house at Red Doe Plantation in Florence County.
“The main house at Red Doe Plantation in Florence County was completed in 1846,” Graf told us. “The house is made of a wood frame construction reportedly with pegged joints. The original property included 1,006 acres and was a working cotton plantation. The home has changed hands at least a dozen times over the years. Nearly all of that time it remained in the ownership of descendants of the original owner, John Gregg, who bought the property in 1836 as a gift for his son, Evander.
“In the 1930s the property became known as ‘Red Doe,’ named for a Revolutionary War incident involving an escape to safety on a horse named Red Doe. In 1982, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 2006, the Wilkins family who owned this property donated it to Pee Dee Rifles of Florence, who then formed a nonprofit organization called Red Doe, Inc. In 2012, the nonprofit began the task of cleaning up the property and making some minor restorations and then put it up for sale for $150,000.”
Others who correctly identified the photo were Elizabeth Jones of Columbia and Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas.
- 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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