After last week’s photo of a tiny building, a reader sent in another that might be new to you. What and where is it? Send your name, hometown and guess to: feedback@statehousereport.com.
Last week’s mystery, “Cute little building,” is known as the “world’s smallest police station,” a 10-foot-by-12-foot structure in Ridgeway in Fairfield County. Thanks to Barry Wingard of Florence for the photo.
Reader George Graf of Palmyra, Va., shares that before it was a police station, the area was the town’s well: “The area behind the police station is known as the cotton yard. It’s called this because it was used as a staging area for cotton farmers bringing their cotton into town to be loaded on the train for shipment. Before farmers would leave town, they would pull their wagons up to the well to water their mules and oxen.
“In 1940, as part of the old WPA project, the well was covered up and the ‘World’s Smallest Station’ was born and served several officers until 1990 when the current police station opened up. The ‘new’ station was formerly the Town’s garage and housed a tractor and equipment for Ridgeway’s Water and Sewer Department.”
Hats off to the almost two dozen readers who identified the building: Bill Segars and Michael Webb, both of Hartsville; Steve Willis of Lancaster; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Jay Altman and Elizabeth Jones, both of Columbia; Pat Keadle of Perry; Will Bradley of Las Vegas, Nevada; Will Williams of Aiken; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Tom Stickler of Pawleys Island; Hope Williams of Varnville; Truett Jones of Summerton; Robert Kornyak of Conway; John Catoe of Great Falls; Wendy Ali of Sumter; and Heather Kitchens of Lexington.
- 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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I am curious as to whether you are getting my emails or not. I deed the police station in Ridgeway, but I am not listed. I have emailed you before and not gotten any response I am curious as to whether you are getting my emails or not. I deed the police station in Ridgeway, but I am not listed. I have emailed you before and not gotten any response so I think I may so I think I may be doing something wrong.. please let me know if you got this email thank you.
I don’t recall getting emails, but I surely don’t understand what “I deed the police station in Ridgeway means.”