Here is just the kind of place that lots of people are looking for at this time of the year. Where is it? Bonus points: Tell us more about this place. Make sure to add your name and hometown to your guess and send to: feedback@statehousereport.com.
Our most recent mystery, “Stark building,” shows an old picture of Black Mingo Baptist Church in Nesmith in Williamsburg County. What’s interesting, as some readers mentioned to us, is that the Greek Revival church is no longer there, having been destroyed by fire in 1992.
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, said the church was built in 1843 by Cleland Belin, a merchant, businessman, and contractor. The church included a segregated gallery for enslaved worshipers, some of whom likely helped to build the church.
The church fire was “the result of vandalism, leading to the complete loss of this historic structure. Despite the destruction of the building, the surrounding cemetery remains intact, preserving the final resting places of Cleland Belin and other early congregants.”
Congratulations to Peel and other eagle-eyed sleuths for identifying the church: Jay Altman of Columbia; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Bill Segars of Hartsville; and Lynn Vicary of Awendaw.
- 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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