Old Santee Canal Park commemorates South Carolina's beautiful natural resources and emphasizes the tremendous historical significance of the Santee Canal.

Less than 30 minutes away from downtown Charleston in historic Berkeley County, Old Santee Canal Park offers its visitors a glimpse at the events that shaped our lives and our communities as we know them today.

Old Santee Canal Park is located at the end of Stony Landing Road in Moncks Corner, S.C. Stony Landing Road meets U.S. Highway 52 Bypass (Rembert C. Dennis Boulevard) at the traffic light.

Stony Landing House
The Stony Landing Plantation House was built circa 1843 by the Charleston merchant, John H. Dawson, who acquired the land in 1839. The house was a great contrast to the more elegant homes built along the Cooper River in those days. It was a small house with no wainscoting and was noted for its simplicity.

Stony Landing Plantation
Originally referred to as "Stone Landing" and named for the high grade of marl found near the surface of the soil, the name Stone Landing was dropped sometime in the late 1700s and became known as Stony Landing. It is sometimes misspelled " Stoney" Landing, although the well-known family of the name never lived here or owned the land.

This landing on Biggin Creek, where the west branch of the Cooper River begins, was extremely important to the commerce of the early colony. Supplies for the interior regions were brought up the Cooper River by boat, unloaded at Stony Landing, and carried by Indian carriers or pack horsemen and later by wagons up the Cherokee Path. The Cherokee Path went through the Congaree, Cherokee, High Hills of the Santee and the Waxhaws, and then on westward to the Mississippi.