“Who would imagine that a mercenary soldier Captured in 1777 would later design and build the first summit level canal in the United States?”, asks Dr. Richard Porcher, biologist, historian, naturalist, author, conservationist, lecturer and teacher, in his book, The Santee Canal South Carolina’s First Commercial Highway.

 

Join us on Wednesday, September 24, to hear how the Santee Canal became the first commercial highway to move goods from Columbia by water to Charleston, thus helping to revive the economy of Charleston and agriculture in the South Carolina Midlands. Learn more at https://www.lordberkeley.org/oldsanteecanal