This may be a familiar looking water tower to some visitors and residents of South Carolina, but where is it? Send your best 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 Feb. 14 image, “Tranquil setting,” was a photo taken by Sitka, Alaska, resident Thomas Jacobsen in Poinsett State Park in Sumter County. Several alert sleuths guessed it, including two state senators — Democrats Brad Hutto of Orangeburg and Thomas McElveen of Sumter. The park is in McElveen’s district. Others who correctly identified the building on the lake were Dwight Cauthen, Jean Prothro and Jay Altman, of Columbia; Montez Martin of Charleston; and George Graf of Palmyra, Va.
Martin shared a Wikipedia summary of the park: “Sumter County donated 1,000 acres for the park, which opened to the public in 1936. Many buildings still in use at the park were built by the Civilian Conservation Corps from locally quarried coquina rock. Coquina is a young limestone in which fossil seashells are still readily apparent. Poinsett State Park was the first of many parks built by the CCC in South Carolina. During the days of racial segregation, the nearby state park for blacks was Mill Creek Group Camp. The park was closed in 1963 for a year, along with all of South Carolina’s state parks, due to a Federal court order to desegregate the parks, and it wasn’t until 1966 that all its facilities were reopened. The park’s historical elements were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2016.”
- 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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