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2 unusual facts about Santee


Battle of Dead Buffalo Lake

The Battle of Dead Buffalo Lake was a skirmish in July 1863 in Dakota Territory between United States army forces and Santee, Yankton, Yanktonai and Teton Sioux.

Museum of Creation and Earth History

The Museum of Creation and Earth History is a young earth creationist promotional facility founded by the Institute for Creation Research at its original headquarters in Santee, California in 1992.


Cherokee treaties

;Treaty with South Carolina, 1721 : Ceded land between the Santee, Saluda, and Edisto Rivers to the Province of South Carolina.

;Treaty with South Carolina, 1755 : Ceded land between the Wateree and Santee Rivers to the Province of South Carolina.

Episcopal Diocese of South Dakota

There is one church located in Minnesota, St. John’s in Browns Valley, part of the Northeast Deanery, and two in Nebraska, Blessed Redeemer, in Howe Creek and Our Most Merciful Savior, in Santee.

Frederick Rodgers

After Santee captured her second blockade runner – the hermaphrodite brig Delta carrying a cargo of salt from Liverpool, England – on 27 October 1861, Rodgers was placed aboard Delta in command of her prize crew.

Lake Strom Thurmond

At 71,000 acres (287 km²), it is the third-largest artificial lake east of the Mississippi River, behind the Kentucky Lake on the Tennessee River and Lake Marion on the Santee River.

Santee State Park

It is located off SC 6, three miles (5 km) northwest of the town of Santee and I-95.

Wateree

Wateree River, a tributary of the Santee River in central South Carolina in the United States

Wes Santee

Santee's track career, including his rivalry with Bannister and Landy and his troubles with the AAU, is chronicled in Neal Bascomb's 2004 book The Perfect Mile.


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