This old building might look like it’s falling down, but there’s a historic significance for it. What? And where is it? Send us your guess – as well as your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com.
Last week’s photo, “Wooden building,” showed a rice-threshing mill at Chicora Wood plantation in Georgetown County.
David Lupo of Mount Pleasant shares more: “During the 19th century, Chicora Wood (called Mantanza Plantation during the earlier part of the century) was the home of Robert Francis Withers Allston. Immediately before the Civil War, Allston’s rice plantations produced as much as 1.5 million pounds of rice annually and depended upon the labor of hundreds of enslaved persons. During his lifetime, Allston also served in the SC House and Senate and as the 67th Governor of South Carolina.”
Others who correctly identified the photo were Frank Bouknight of Summerville; Penny Forrester of Tallahassee, Fla.; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Jay Altman and Elizabeth Jones, both of Columbia; and Pat Keadle of Wagener.
>> 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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