This should be just plain easy. What is it and where is it? Bonus points: Tell us something cool about it. Send in your best guess – and your name and hometown – to feedback@statehousereport.com. And if you have a mystery photo to share, send that along too (but tell us what it is because we’re horrible guessers.)
Last week’s mystery, “Monument,” was particularly relevant for an issue remembering the nation’s 250th birthday. It showed a monument to the Battle of Kings Mountain at Kings Mountain National Military Park in Blacksburg, site of a major colonial win in the Revolutionary War.
Sleuth Tom Elmore of Columbia notes “The battle is significant because over 900 ‘over the mountains’ men from Tennessee and North Carolina defeated a Loyalist force of over 1,000 men led by Maj. Patrick Ferguson, the only regular army soldier in the battle. The Patriot forces surrounded the Loyalists who were atop the mountain and routed them. Ferguson lost close to a thousand men killed, wounded or captured, including Ferguson himself who is buried near the monument to only about 90 casualties for the Patriots.”
Hats off to others who identified the image: Jay Altman of Columbia; Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas; Steve Willis of Lancaster; Philip Cromer of Beaufort; Bill Segars of Hartsville; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; and Nelson Little of Mount Pleasant.
- SHARE: If you have a Mystery Photo to share, please send it to us – and make sure you tell us what it is!
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