Here’s a great-looking garden filled with roses. But where is it? Can you tell us anything else about it? Send your guess to feedback@statehousereport.com — and remember to include your name, home city and contact information.
Last week’s mystery, “This one may be too hard,” proved to be relatively easy to several Statehouse Report readers. The photo, sent in by Bill Segars of Hartsville, shows a little-seen view of the Chicora Wood Plantation rice shipping house along the shore of the Great Pee Dee River in the Plantersville area of Georgetown County.
Congratulations to the five readers who correctly identified it: George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Kevin Mertens of Greenville; Elizabeth Jones of Columbia; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; and Jacie Godfrey of Florence.
Peel shared that the building was part of a rice plantation established by John Allston in the mid-1730s. “The structure shown in the mystery photo is a storage facility on the banks of the river where rice would be prepared and stored for eventual transportation along the river.”
- Send us a mystery. 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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