Columbia Canal - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Columbia Canal - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
The Columbia Canal is the surviving canal of a series of canals built by the State of South Carolina in 1824 using the labor of indentured Irishmen to provide direct water routes between the upstate settlements and the towns on the Fall Line. It is on the Congaree and Broad rivers in Columbia, South Carolina. It is the focal point of the Riverfront Park in Columbia. The canal is now used to generate hydroelectric power by the South Carolina Electric & Gas Co.Wilbur Smith and Associates, The Columbia Canal Study, Columbia, SC, 1979?, 110 pp.Edgar, Walter, ed. The South Carolina Encyclopedia, University of South Carolina Press, 2006, p. 208, Read more on Wikipedia
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