Santee Canal/ Village of Eadytown

Passive Park/ Marker/ Santee Canal, approximately 4 miles west of Pineville, SC, near intersection of SC Hwy 45 and Old Canal Road. AR Timeline, Chartered 1786, Constructed 1793-1800

Mepkin Abbey/ Plantation

AR – 1775-1783. This present day community of Roman Catholic monks sits on 3,000 acres. The first record of the “Mepkin” name was a 1681 grant to the sons of Sir John Coleton, one of the Lords Proprietary of South Carolina. In 1762, one of his...