Communities destroyed & displaced
Ferguson and the Santee basin, under Lake Marion
Cleared from 1939; the basin flooded by 1942Ferguson, now under Lake Marion, SC
The Santee Cooper project cleared more than 160,000 acres of the Santee swamp and drowned the mill town of Ferguson. The people it moved were the Black farming communities around it - in one parish, 2,500 to 3,000 people, about four in five of them African American.
- People displaced
- 2,500
The shape on the map is a reconstruction drawn from historical descriptions, not a surveyed boundary. Follow the sources for authoritative maps.