Santee National Wildlife Refuge is a 15,000-acre refuge along Lake Marion on the Santee River in South Carolina’s Atlantic Coastal Plain. Established in 1941 and reduced in 1976 after the Lake Moultrie section was discontinued, it now consists of the Bluff, Pine Island, Dingle Pond, and Cuddo units. Its varied landscape of hardwoods, pines, marsh, old croplands, impoundments, and open water supports migratory birds and wildlife including bald eagles, peregrine falcons, deer, bobcats, alligators, and wild turkeys. It also preserves the Santee Native American mound, later the site of British Fort Watson, captured by Marion’s Brigade in April 1781.