Mystery Photo: Football stadium

Here’s a football stadium somewhere in South Carolina. Where? If you have a good mystery stumper to share with fellow readers, send to: feedback@statehousereport.com.

Last week’s Mystery Photo, “House and tree,” showed the Aiken County house at Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site, which reader Teresa Harper of Aiken reminded us once was owned by the state’s 60th governor, James Henry Hammond. “He was a staunch defender of slavery.”

Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, shared that Hammond considered himself a modern Caesar: “Hammond was one of South Carolina’s largest slaveholders before the Civil War and by 1860, he controlled over 14,000 acres of land and had more than 300 enslaved people, with 80 of them working at the Redcliffe Plantation. Hammond even considered himself to be a ‘modern Caesar,’ and was heard referring to himself as a ‘Patrician,’ echoing the terminology used when referring to nobility in the Roman Empire. He even had a marble bust of himself installed in the main library, standing between busts of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, clearly aligning himself with two of the most iconic rulers in Western history.”

Others who recognized the house were: David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Jay Altman of Columbia; Will Williams of Aiken; and George Graf of Palmyra, Va.