So the hints with this mystery are that the picture was taken in a port city in South Carolina. But where, specifically, and why are these three flags flying together? Send your guess to feedback@statehousereport.com — and remember to include your name, home city and contact information.
Last week’s mystery, “Blue shutters,” was a tough one, but it showed S.C.-flag related features on shutters at 40 Tradd Street in Charleston.
Congratulations to the five readers who identified the specific location: George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Jay Altman of Columbia; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; and Pat Keadle of Wagener;
Peel shared more about the photo of shutters on one of a pair of buildings built around 1718: “Historical records indicate that the pair of 2-1/2 story buildings at 38 and 40 Tradd Street were built using bricks that were recovered from the ballast of a ship that arrived in Charleston’s Harbor several years earlier. These two structures are known as “The Bullock Buildings” and were spared from destruction during the plague of fires that swept through the area in 1838 and again in the ‘Great Fire of 1861.’ Their survival makes the Bullock Buildings among the oldest houses in Charleston.”
- 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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