Today’s Mystery Photo offers several clues to its identification. See if you can convert clues to fact and tell us where this is located, and what is the purpose. Send your ideas to [email protected].
of Lawrenceville was among several who identified the last mystery. She wrote: “The photo is Christ Church Episcopal, Frederica, at Saint Simons Island. This church dates back to 1736 with the missionary work by the brothers, Charles and John Wesley. An interesting fact about the church: parishioners discovered a beehive in the church’s steeple. They collected the honey to sell and used the money to help make repairs to the church. As most things in Georgia during the American Civil War, it was destroyed. But that didn’t stop the people from holding church services with lay preachers and the occasional visiting clergy holding services. By 1879, Rector Anson Dodge Jr. helped reorganize the church and by 1884 rebuilt the church building on the same site as a memorial to his wife, who was buried on the church grounds.” The photo came from the vacationing Tim Keith of Sugar Hill.
Several readers recognizing the photo included Billy Chism, Toccoa; Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.; Tracy Brookshire, Duluth; Barbara Luckhurst, Duluth; Barbara Myers Mason, Big Canoe; Molly Titus, Peachtree Corners; Tim Sullivan, Mulberry; Doug Cozart, Peachtree Corners; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Mike Monrgomery, Duluth; Cindy Hall, Canton; and Allan Peel, San Antonio, Texas: who added: “Beyond rebuilding Christ Church, Reverend Anson is credited with starting 34 Episcopal churches in Southeast Georgia and establishing the Anson Phelps Dodge Home for Boys in memory of his son, Anson Greene Phelps Dodge III (1891–1894), who, sadly, died in a tragic carriage accident. While riding with his father, the horse bolted, and the young boy was thrown from the carriage…