TO: Diane Sparks, Lee and Billie Jones, and List Members, I am forwarding your message to the Richmond County, Georgia, list and back to the South Carolina ones. I am not up on my Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, history, as to specific dates, but the canal digging mentioned in the posting below would be somewhere around the time that the Augusta Canal and other similar type work would have been going on. It might would fit if the family lived on the South Carolina side of the Savannah River and fairly close to the Augusta area. Just a suggestion. I don't recall exactly when the railroads began to come in. There might could have been some type of work train to transport workers. Just throwing out some ideas. I have several generations buried in the old Magnolia Cemetery and in West View Cemetery in Augusta, Georgia, from the late 1800's and early 1900's and I lived in Augusta in the late 1940's as a young child and visited back there fairly often in the years after that. Green-Cumbaa, Crow, Toole, Whitlock, Carpenter, etc. While I don't have any specific information, it would seem reasonable that there might have been some type of minor canals in connection with some of the early textile miles in the Horse Creek Valley with places like Graniteville, etc. My husband's Cates family was frome the Edgefield area that became Saluda and my Whitlock and Carpenters and associated families were from the Trenton area. Tooles were from Barnwell. Vivian Cates, Alto, Texas -----Original Message----- From: Lee and Billie Jones [mailto:tjones@camden.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 11:53 AM To: SCEDGEFI-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SCEDGEFI] Re: Canals built in and around Edgefield I don't know the answer to this Diane, but I am sure that the Edgefield Genelogical Society or Historical Society could help. I am forwarding your query to the Edgefield list. Someone might be able to help you. Good Luck Billie Jones. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Sparks" <dsparks@netdoor.com> To: "Lee and Billie Jones" <tjones@camden.net> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 9:27 PM Subject: Re: Canals built in and around Edgefield > I have written to you before. I am searching for information on my > great-great-great-grandparents Thomas Price and Melinda Garland Price. I > found them in the 1840 census of Edgefield District. They were in > Mississippi by the time ofthe 1850 census. Recently I have made a connection > for my Thomas Price which has been a brick wall. I now have substantial > proof that Thomas Price was the son of Daniel Price III born 1794. Thomas > Price was born in Chester County South Carolina around 1818. The records I > found indicate Thomas Price was involved in digging canals. I am assuming he > was in Edgefield District in 1840 working on a canal. A cousin states a > canal was under construction during this time frame in Edgefield District. > > What I am asking, is there any information regarding the construction of a > canal in Edgefield District during this time? If so could you point me in > that direction? > Thank You > Diane > > > ==== SCEDGEFI Mailing List ==== To SEARCH or BROWSE the archived postings of the EDGEFIELD, SOUTH CAROLINA mail list, go to: http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/SC/edgefield.html And scroll to the bottom of the page.