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The Santee Canal began at White Oak Bluff on the Santee River. Henry Mouzon, the original surveyor had determined the river was normally 270 feet wide and 18- 20 feet deep at this point. Col. John Christian Senf, the engineer, designed the canal to be 35 feet wide at the surface, 32 feet wide at the bottom, five- and- a- half- feet deep holding four feet of water. More ... In May of 1966 my friend Heyward Douglass and I made a float trip down the Santee River. We put in at the old Sawdust Pile landing, sometimes known as Trezevant's, just below the confluence of the Wateree and the Congaree, and took out four days later at McClellanville. More ... |
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