We’ll stick with the Halloween theme this week and offer this mystery for your consideration. What is it? Where is it? Send us your guess of what this photo shows – as well as your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com.
Last week’s mystery photo, “In the jungle,” shows Fort Fremont on St. Helena Island in Beaufort County.
David Lupo of Mount Pleasant provides its relevance: “The fort is one of two remaining U.S. coastal fortifications dating to the Spanish-American War era. While it was authorized to protect Port Royal Sound soon after the Spanish-American War began, fighting never reached South Carolina, and the war ended before the fort was completed. The fort was unused after 1911. It was decommissioned and the land was sold in 1930. The property is now owned by Beaufort County, and a new History Center was opened in November 2021.”
Congrats to all who also correctly identified it: George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Haidie Stith of Lexington; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Penny Forrester of Tallahassee, Fla.; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; Rebecca McLain of Bluffton; Janice Dinken of Chapin; Jay Altman and Elizabeth Jones of Columbia; Charles Ford of Goose Creek; Bill Segars of Hartsville; Crystal Wincester of Beaufort; Pat Keadle of Wagener; Romaine Singletary and Barry Wingard, both of Florence; Gail Kelley of Spartanburg; Clifford Enloe of New Holland; and Shelley Hubbard and Nick Santangelo.
>> 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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