Here’s an old field somewhere in South Caorlina. What and where is it? Why might it have relevance this week? Send your name, hometown and guess to: feedback@statehousereport.com.
Last week’s mystery, “Old-timey mural,” came from Bill Segars of Hartsville. It shows a Revolutionary War scene called “Francis Marion Reflections,” on a wall in downtown Manning.
Amateur genealogist Elizabeth Jones of Columbia, who has been researching her family’s Revolutionary War history, was thrilled with the photo that showed Marion: “Known as the Swamp Fox for cunning and sly maneuvers in battle, he is immortalized by the S.C. Picture Project and depictions of Gen. Marion and his men of the brigade on the Swamp Fox Trail. Their Revolutionary War battles throughout the area and across South Carolina are legendary. … This mural is one of 17, so far. Thanks to General Francis Marion and his men, and the patriots in families such as mine throughout the Southeastern seaboard, we do not have to pledge loyalty to King Charles of England.”
Hats off to other sleuths who identified the mural: Michael Webb of Hartsville; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Steve Willis of Lancaster; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Willard Strong of Manning; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Penny Forrester of Tallahassee, Fla.; Pat Keadle of Perry; Barry Wingard and Jacie Godfrey, both of Florence; Will Williams of Aiken; Jay Altman of Columbia; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; and G.C. Summers.
- 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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