Santee Cooper Electric Power Project | History of SC Slide Collection

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The Santee Cooper electric power project begun during the New Deal was promoted by Governor Ibra Charles Blackwood (see Ibra Charles Blackwood). The power-house site for the dam is shown here under construction in 1939.

Courtesy of the South Caroliniana Library.

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