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Historic Canals & Waterways of South Carolina

Author : Robert J. Kapsch

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Page : 272 pages

File Size : 29,20 MB

Release : 2010

Category : History

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From the 1790s to the 1830s, the Palmetto State was a preeminent leader in infrastructure improvements and developed an extensive system of more than two thousand miles of canals and waterways connecting virtually every part of the state with the coast and the port of Charleston. Robert J. Kapsch expertly recounts the complex history of innovation, determination, and improvement that fueled the canal boom in early-nineteenth-century South Carolina. --from publisher description.















Santee Canal Company Broadside

Author : Santee Canal Company

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 40,62 MB

Release : 1785

Category : Canals

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One item, 1785, broadside announcing an organizational meeting to constitute a company "consisting of one thousand shares" "for opening the communication between Santee and Cooper Rivers by a canal and locks from or near Cool's Landing, through Greenland Swamp to Biggin Bridge," listing names of those participating with space for "subscribers". Contains the names of company members including Richard Hutson, Major Mitchell, Major Vanderhorst, Colonel Grimke, William Bull, John Dawson, Alexander Rose, Judge Pendleton, John Rutledge, Mr. Loocock, Thomas Bourke, Jesham Moore, Thomas Jones, Daniel Bourdeaux, and Captain James Mitchell.