This building has a lot of gables. Please identify it and tell us a little about it. Send us your guess of what this photo shows – as well as your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com.
Thirty people correctly identified last week’s mystery, “Star,” which is a marker on the S.C. Statehouse where a cannonball hit during Sherman’s raid on Columbia in 1865. Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, provided an explanation: “These stars were placed by the S.C. General Assembly in 1929 to denote the location of the damage done to the granite walls that was caused by Union artillery fire on Feb. 16, 1865, shortly before the city surrendered to General William T. Sherman, and while the building was still under construction.”
Congratulations also to: Susan Richardson of Cherry Grove; Steve Willis of Lancaster; Will Bradley of Las Vegas, Nevada; Jay Altman, Elizabeth Jones, Mary Bostick, John Hart and Karen Ingram, all of Columbia; Bill Segars, Don Clark and Michael Webb, all of Hartsville; Craig White of Greenwood; Lawrence Moore of Folly Beach; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Frank Bouknight and Daniel Prohaska, both of Summerville; Jacie Godfrey and Barry Wingard, both of Florence; Will Williams of Aiken; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Gil Bulman of Spartanburg; Pat Keadle of Wagener; Charles Ford and Sean Keefer, both of Charleston; Randy Herald of Lexington; Penny Forrester of Tallahassee, Fla.; David Taylor of Darlington; Lisa Griffin of Tega Cay; and Ann Nolte.
- 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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