Santee Canal

Santee Canal

1793– 1865

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  • Title Santee Canal
  • Coverage 1793– 1865
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  • Keywords By linking the Santee and Cooper Rivers, investors hoped to create a trade route that would bring prosperity to the state in general and Charleston in particular, quicker and cheaper than overland travel and avoid the long and frequently treacherous ocean passage from the mouth of the Santee to the city, General Assembly chartered the “Company for the Inland Navigation from Santee to Cooper River,” rise of railroad competition
  • Website Name South Carolina Encyclopedia
  • Publisher University of South Carolina, Institute for Southern Studies
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  • Access Date April 27, 2024
  • Original Published Date
  • Date of Last Update August 23, 2022
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