National Register of Historic Places

Landsford Canal

Rowell, Chester County, South Carolina
Listed
December 2, 1969
Type
Structure
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
69000163

About this property

The Canal State Park consists of three sets of locks, a mill site, miller's house, and a lockkeeper's house—all in various forms of decay and ruins. The Landsford Canal was the furthest upstream of a series of river boat navigations built in the 1810s and 1820s by Irish masons under the direction of master contractor Robert Leckie of Scotland – canals built on the Western North Carolina Catawba River and South Carolina Wateree Rivers to provide a direct water route between the upstate settlements and the towns along the Fall Line. River transport being far superior to road transport on the crude, oft muddy tracks that sufficed as roads. It is along a two-mile (3.2 km) stretch of the Catawba River in Chester County and Lancaster County west of Lancaster where the fall of the river created a shallow water crossing, a ford named for an early settler who owned the land around the Catawba River, Thomas Land. The lock keeper's house and the canal with three locks is the centerpiece of the Landsford Canal State Park.

Location

Rowell, Chester County, South Carolina
34.78682, -80.88280

Categories

HISTORIC - NON-ABORIGINALMILITARYENGINEERINGTRANSPORTATION
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Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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Nearby Battles

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Waxhaws Massacre
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Landsford Canal was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 2, 1969.

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The period of significance for Landsford Canal is recorded as the industrial era.

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