Here’s a pleasant spring scene filled with dogwood blooms. But where is it? Send your guess to feedback@statehousereport.com — and remember to include your name, home city and contact information.
Last week’s mystery, “Wouldn’t want to be here at night,”’showed Landsford Canal in Chester County in a photo sent in by Lisa Griffin of Tega Cary.
Several readers identified the canal, including Bill Segars and Don Clark, both of Hartsville; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Jay Altman and Jean Prothro, both of Columbia; Pat Keadle of Wagener; and Frank Bouknight and Daniel Prohaska, both of Summerville.
Segars told us that “this waterway was designed by Robert Mills and built under the supervision of Robert Leckie as a way to bypass the rapids of the Catawba River. Even though it began operation in the early 1820s, it was only used until 1940 when it became ineffective to operate.”
Peel reminded that the canal also is a state park: “There are three trails in the park, but the most popular trail by far is the Canal Trail which follows the Landsford Canal. Some original stone work and locks remain, and there are markers along the trail as well as the remains of stone bridges that crossed the canal. All of these features are actually visible in the mystery photo from the canal walls on either side of the photo, which lead the viewer’s gaze down the canal, past a location where a canal lock gate would have been (where the canal deepens) in the center of the photo, and all the way to the background-center of the photo which shows a stone arch bridge crossing over the canal. Finally, a descriptive marker is visible on top of the right-hand stone wall. As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words … and the photographer was able to capture a lot of information in a single shot. Well done!”
>> 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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