A reader sent in this mystery photo, which might prove to be pretty tough. Hint: It’s along coastal South Carolina. Send your guess to feedback@statehousereport.com — and remember to include your name, home city and contact information.
Last week’s mystery, “Surrounded,” showed a crypt near the Old Sheldon Church ruins in Beaufort County. Several readers correctly identified it, including Henry Eldridge of Tega Cay; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Elizabeth Jones of Columbia; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Faith Line of Anderson; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; and Bill Segars of Hartsville.
Jones shared: “The ruins of Old Sheldon Church in Yemassee, S.C., also include the cemetery with its tombs, mausoleums and crypts from the 1750s into early 1800s. The original Prince William’s Parish Church was erected beginning in 1753. It was completed but burned by Loyalists during the Revolutionary War. The roof and interior were restored, but the church was burned or destroyed again by federal troops during the Civil War.
“The church began being called Sheldon, and later Old Sheldon, after Colonel William Bull’s plantation of the same name. Colonel Bull assisted [Georgia’s James] Oglethorpe in laying out the grid of downtown Savannah Ga., but I digress. Colonel Bull is buried in the churchyard of Old Sheldon.”
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