Where is this in South Carolina and what is it? Send your name, hometown and guess to: feedback@statehousereport.com.
Last week’s mystery, “Old church,” was a photo submitted by faithful sleuth Barry Wingard of Florence. It showed an old Episcopal church near the Mars Bluff area of Florence County, which several readers identified.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, wrote, “Christ Episcopal Church, a small ‘Carpenter Gothic’ style church with a cruciform layout, typical of the small and isolated rural churches built throughout the south in the 19th century. It served as the Episcopal community church in Mars Bluff for more than 50 years until most of the parishioners began attending the larger St. John’s Episcopal Church in downtown Florence. Dwindling attendance at the Christ Episcopal Church eventually led to its closure in 1918. The church was later opened and used for Bible classes in the 1930s and for special worship services in the 1940s. It became a mission church of St. John’s in 1950 and a parish church in 2015 when Christ Church joined the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina.”
Others who identified the church were: Steve Willis of Lancaster; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Jay Altman and Elizabeth Jones, both of Columbia; Bill Segars and Don Clark, both of Hartsville; Will Bradley of Las Vegas, Nevada; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; David Taylor of Darlington; and Pat Keadle of Perry.
- 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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