Where is this building and what’s its significance? Send your best guess of what it is to feedback@statehousereport.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
Our previous Mystery Photo
Our May 22 image, “Living in style,” showed a grand house in Galivants Ferry, S.C., that was home to the late John Monroe Holiday, whose family has hosted a legendary Democratic stump meeting for years. This year’s stump, originally scheduled for May, was postponed until the fall due to coronavirus, according to this story.
Congratulations to the Report’s loyal readers who identified the manse: Gwen Strickland of Marion; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; Lexie Chatham of West Columbia; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Greg W. Anderson of Edgefield; and Lynn Stokes-Murray of Columbia.
The house, located on U.S. Highway 501 at the western edge of Horry County. Galivants Ferry, Graf writes, has “witnessed a steady passage of ox carts, mule-drawn wagons, horse-drawn buggies, cattle herds, fancy buggies and folks traveling by foot, or what was called ‘shanks’ mare’ in days gone by.
“Galivants Ferry is perhaps best known for the Galivants Ferry Stump Meeting, a traditional political event for area Democrats named for the old-time belief that politicians often addressed crowds from atop a stump. The event originated with South Carolina’s 1876 governor’s race, when Democrats rallied here to help elect former Confederate General Wade Hampton and end the Reconstruction Era in the Palmetto State.”
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.
We Can Do Better, South Carolina!