Here’s an interesting old building that a reader sent of a place omewhere in South Carolina. It looks pretty cozy, surrounded by greenery. What and where is it? Send your name, hometown and guess to: feedback@statehousereport.com.
Last week’s mystery, “Now and then,” showed a 1907 postcard of the old Hartsville Cotton Mill, which Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, writes was built in 1907. “The site is now the campus of the South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics, a public boarding high school for students in grades 11 and 12, that concentrates on science and mathematics but offers a full spectrum of the arts and humanities studies as well.”
Bill Segars, who lives in Hartsville, says there’s little left of the old mill. “I am glad to say that there are efforts being made now to rehabilitate the’”MIll Village’ community, which adjoins the mill property, for present day housing. Unfortunately today, there are no signs of the original mill building remaining, which was owned by Milliken & Company when it was given to the S.C. Department of Education for the new South Carolina Governor’s School for Science and Mathematics. There was an effort made to save the chimney, but it was not stable enough to leave as a freestanding feature.”
Readers guessed several other mills, but the others who who correctly identified the Hartsville mill were longtime sleuths: Jacie Godfrey of Florence, George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Pat Keadle of Wagener; and Jay Altman of Columbia.
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