Here’s an old building in the middle part of South Carolina. Recognize it or figure out where it is? Send us your guess – as well as your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com.
Last week’s photo, “Old gas station” was sent to us by Barry Wingard of Florence. It was, as several new and long-time sleuths recognized, a gas station at Galivants Ferry off U.S. Highway 501 where decades of political stump meetings have been held.
Jay Altman of Columbia noted, “For almost 150 years, state and local politicians would hold a ‘stump meeting’ every two years and address crowds of potential voters. My grandfather took me to several stump meetings in the 1960s (we lived about 15 miles from Galivants Ferry). Excellent chicken bog made up for all the political hot air at these meetings.”
Congrats to: Robert Ariail of Camden; Mark Partin of Sumter; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Grace Gifford of Conway; Bill Segars of Hartsville; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; Jacie Godfrey of Florence; John Hart of Columbia; Gwen Strickland of Marion; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; David Taylor of Darlington; and Lynn Skipper of Aynor. And Kammy Benton (no town given).
>> 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.
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