Lake Marion (South Carolina)
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Lake Marion is a large man-made lake in central South Carolina. It has a 315-mile shoreline and covers nearly 110,000 acres of rolling farmlands, former marshes, and river valley landscape. With terri
Interstate 95 bridge over Lake Marion, Santee, SC; the old bridge (left) is now a pedestrian bridge and fishing pier
Lake Moultrie
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Lake Moultrie is a large man-made lake in South Carolina. Created in the 1940s by a state utility project to provide electricity to rural SC by damming the Santee River, it covers more than 60,000 acr
Lake Marion (South Carolina)
…utility Santee Cooper's Hydroelectric and Navigation Project. The project also included construction of the Pinopolis Dam (Cooper River Dam) to create Lake Moultrie, immediately downstream, and a diversion canal seven and a half miles long to connect the two. This was one of the infrastructure projects supported…
Sunset at Lake Moultrie from the southeast shore