MYSTERY PHOTO: Open for business

Here’s an older picture of a place in South Carolina that’s open for business. Where is it? Send your guess – and your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com.

Last week’s image of “A partial Rainbow Row,” pulled in more than a dozen photo bandits guessing the correct location as North Main Street in Saluda, S.C.  

Congrats to:  Jay Altman of Columbia; Will Williams of Aiken; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Madelyne Adams of Charleston; Steve Willis of Lancaster; Elliott Brack of Norcross, Ga.; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Will Bradley of Las Vegas, Nevada; Pat Keadle of Wagener; and Bill Segars of Hartsville.

Peel shared how Saluda had some close ties to his Texas hometown: “Approximately 40 miles west of Columbia, the town of Saluda, is situated among low, gradually sloping hills and bordered by the Saluda River, after which the town was named. The town is the county seat and sits squarely in the center of Saluda County. Two famous heroes of the Alamo, William Barrett Travis (1807–1836) and James Butler Bonham (1807–1836), were natives of Saluda, and both of them died on March 6, 1836 in the Battle of the Alamo as they defended the Alamo Mission against the bloody,  13-day siege by Mexican troops under President General Antonio López de Santa Anna.”

>> Send us a mystery picture. 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.