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Santee Cooper

Santee Cooper

1785 –

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Santee-Cooper Dam

Exterior; day: various scenes of the construction of the Pinopolis Dam on Lake Marion / Moultrie.

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Title Santee Cooper
Coverage 1785 –
Author T. Robert Hart
Keywords railroads virtually eliminated the need for the inland waterway, Thomas C. Williams, an engineer and steamboat operator, gained rights to rebuild the canal and reopen the area to inland navigation, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave the Public Service Authority approval to draw on funding from the Public Works Administration, making the Santee Cooper project (as it was quickly dubbed) the largest New Deal program in the Palmetto State, became the largest land-clearing project in United States history and created the largest single-lift lock in the world
Website Name South Carolina Encyclopedia
Publisher University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies
URL https://www.scencyclopedia.org/sce/entries/santee-cooper/view/videos
Access Date April 19, 2024
Original Published Date August 1, 2016
Date of Last Update August 23, 2022

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