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Completed in 1824, the Columbia Canal was an important link in the system of waterways transporting freight between the up country and Charleston. After 1850, railroads supplanted it for transportation. It was leased to the Confederate Government to run powder works, enlarged from 1880 to 1895, and later sold to successive electric power companies.
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Columbia, South Carolina · United States
