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Santee Canal Marker
Photographer: Mike Stroud
Taken: 2009
Caption: Santee Canal Marker
Additional Description: The Old Santee Canal in South Carolina is clearly the nation's first summit canal. (A summit canal goes up and then back down to another body of water.) Construction was started in 1793 and finished in 1800, but little remains of it today.
Submitted: October 24, 2009, by Mike Stroud of Bluffton, South Carolina.
Database Locator Identification Number: p81718
File Size: 0.796 Megabytes

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