Here’s a mystery fountain somewhere in South Carolina. Where and what is it? Bonus points: tell us a story 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.)
According to sleuth Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, last week’s photo, “Rusty contraption,” showed a waterwheel on the north fork of the Edisto River as it runs through Edisto Memorial Gardens in Orangeburg.
“Crafted in 1941, this waterwheel was inspired by a photograph that was published in the National Geographic magazine in the late 1930s, and was built onto a floating barge structure with pontoons,” he wrote. “This allows the wheel to automatically rise and fall with the fluctuating river tide, while keeping the paddles dipped into the river current to spin continuously.”
Others who correctly identified the waterwheel were Philip Cromer of Beaufort; Jay Altman of Columbia; Will Bradley of Las Vegas; Frank Bouknight of Summerville; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; and Ann Nolte of St. Matthews.
- 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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