This truly is a strange photo. It may be so odd and obscure that no one is able to identify it. But let’s see. (It is located somewhere in South Carolina.) So send us your guess of where this photo is – as well as your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com.
Last week’s mystery photo, “Storage,” shows an old plantation house with two phone-booth-sized appendages off the back porch. The house was at Pond Bluff Plantation near Eutawville. But it’s no more after being intentionally burned in 1939 in preparation for flooding connected to the Santee Cooper lakes project, said Jay Altman of Columbia.
The real mystery is what the two shed-like structures were. They likely weren’t outhouses, because for sanitary reasons, they wouldn’t have been located that close to any house. And they might not have been sheds, as tools often were kept in barns. But they could have been some kind of cold food storage area or a place to keep wood or coal. One reader joked it was a good place for moonshine. Another suggested one side could have served as a pumphouse.
Also identifying the house were David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Elizabeth Jones of Columbia; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Don Clark of Hartsville; and Pat Keadle of Wagener.
- 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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