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Archaeological Investigations of the Savannah and Ogeechee Canal

Author(s)
Report Number
302
Year of Publication
1980
County
Abstract

In December of 1824 the Georgia Legislature granted Ebenezer Jencks a charter for the construction of a canal from the Ogeechee River to the port city of Savannah, thereby providing the impetus for the construction of the State's first such facility. Two years later another charter was granted a group of Savannah merchants for its completion, and sometime between 1829 and 1831 the Savannah and Ogeechee Canal began servicing coastal Georgia as a major transport facility.