Here’s a photo older than Statehouse Report’s editor, but what is it and why are all of these folks smiling? Send your guess about the location of this photo to feedback@statehousereport.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo
Our April 5 mystery, “More than a farm field” showed what Cowpens National Battlefield Park looks like these days. The Revolutionary War battlefield is just east of Chesnee in the Upstate. More below on why it was critical to the patriots.
Congrats to these history sleuths: Charles Davis of Aiken; David Taylor of Darlington; Barry Wingard of Florence; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; Dale Rhodes of Richmond, Va.; and Val Valenta and Jay Altman, both of Columbia and both of whom provided context.
Valenta shared why the battle was important: “The Battle of Cowpens was a Revolutionary War battle fought on January 17, 1781, between American Colonial forces under Brigadier General Daniel Morgan and British forces under Lieutenant Colonel Sir Banastre Tarleton, as part of the campaign in the Carolinas. The battle was a turning point in the American reconquest of South Carolina from the British. Tarleton’s British brigade was wiped out as an effective fighting force, and, coupled with the British defeat three months earlier at King’s Mountain on October 7, 1780, British General Charles Cornwallis was compelled to pursue the main southern American army into North Carolina, leading to the Battle of Guilford Court House, and Cornwallis’s eventual defeat at the Siege of Yorktown in October 1781.”
Altman shared similar detail but added, “Maybe my grandmother’s insistence that I be a member of the Children of the American Revolution in Mullins, S.C., some 50 plus years ago helped me with this!”
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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Andy:
I think this is a picture of Fritz after his very first win to become a member of the House of Representatives. My clue was the lady’s hat which was something from the ’30’s, 40’s or early 50’s. This corresponds well with the hair dues, a very young looking Fritz and the very narrow ties.
just a guess.
phil leventis