St. John’s Parish Church (ruins), located east of present-day Moncks Corner, was authorized in 1706 but had to wait until 1708 for its boundaries to be defined from the northern
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