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Rail travel has not always been dependent upon mechanical locomotion. An early invention using horsepower for locomotion won, for C.E. Detmole, the $500 prize offered in 1829 by the South Carolina...
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The Nansemond ferry boat crosses the Cooper River in the 1930s, even though the Cooper River Toll Bridge provided an alternative way into Charleston for automobile traffic. Photo by M.B. Paine...
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The lock house on the Santee Canal, painted by Charles Fraser around 1820. South Carolina has an extensive river system whose major navigable rivers served as important transportation networks for...
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First operated in 1707, the Strawberry Ferry crossed the Cooper River in Berkeley County. In this photo around 1900, passengers are going to church across the river. Courtesy of the South Caroliniana...
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The Inland Waterway between the Stono and Ashley Rivers, 1950. The Atlantic IntraCoastal Waterway is another form of canal. Not one route but many, it stretches from Massachusetts in the north all the...
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Shipping traffic moving in and out of the harbors along the Carolina coast depended upon a series of lighthouses to guide them through sometimes narrow and treacherous channels in the complicated...
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Pleasure boaters on Lake Murray form a pontoon boat raft. Photo by Bill Kalis, June 23,1986. Courtesy of "The State" newspaper.
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The downtown Cooper River docks in Charleston. Charleston's harbor fell into disrepair in the early 20th century after neglect by the railroads, which controlled the docks through the Terminal Company...
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The Congaree River was an important route for travel into the interior of the state until well into the 20th century. Steamboats and barges transported freight and passengers. Some of the steamboats...
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The "Ghio," a rear-wheel paddle steamer, docks at the landing at Cheraw around 1900. Note the trolley or incline railway that carried loads from the river landing up the steep bank to the level of the...