After some recent relatively easy mysteries, this one might be tough. So tough, in fact, that you might need a hint: It’s somewhere in South Carolina, which you probably assumed anyway. Send your guess to: feedback@statehousereport.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo
Our Sept. 21 mystery showed a different kind of 21 Club located at 21 Magazine Street in Charleston – site of the Old City Jail. Congrats to a baker’s dozen of photo sleuths who identified the old building: Haidee Stith of Lexington; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Henry Horres, Addison Ingle and DeDe Tyler, all of Charleston; Philip Cromer of Beaufort; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Harvey Shackelford of Newberry; Steve Willis of Lancaster; Bill Segars and Don Clark, both of Hartsville; Jay Altman of Columbia; and Theresa Campana-Haller of Milford, Conn. Thanks also to Dale Rhodes of Richmond, Va., for suggesting the photo.
Graf shared something about the jail we didn’t know: “The infamous Lavinia Fisher was held in the Old Charleston Jail. According to findagrave.com, Lavinia Fisher was hanged in 1820 but the crime was highway robbery— a capital offense at the time—not murder. She was a member of a large gang of highwaymen who operated out of two houses in the Backcountry outside of Charleston, the Five Mile House and the Six Mile House. The legend of Lavinia Fisher had probably already started but her (true) last words to the crowd at her hanging guaranteed her immortality: ’If you have a message you want to send to hell, give it to me—I’ll carry it.’”
- 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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Poinsett Hotel, Greenville.