Irish Canal Worker Memorial

Irish Canal Worker Memorial is a memorial in Richland County, South Carolina. Irish Canal Worker Memorial is situated nearby to the theater building Riverfront Park Amphitheater, as well as near the park The Esplanade at CanalSide.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include South Carolina State Museum and EdVenture.

South Carolina State Museum

Museum

Photo: Abductive, CC0.

The South Carolina State Museum is a museum dedicated to the history of South Carolina. It has four floors of permanent and changing exhibits, a digital dome planetarium, 4D interactive theater, and an observatory. South Carolina State Museum is situated 2,200 feet southeast of Irish Canal Worker Memorial.

EdVenture

Museum

EdVenture is the largest children's museum in the Southeast United States, located in Columbia, South Carolina. It is second only to The Children's Museum of Indianapolis which is the largest children's museum in the world. EdVenture is situated 2,600 feet southeast of Irish Canal Worker Memorial.

Columbia Canal

Power station

Photo: Jack Boucher, Public domain.

The Columbia Canal is the surviving canal of a series of canals built by the State of South Carolina in 1824 using the labor of indentured Irishmen to provide direct water routes between the upstate settlements and the towns on the Fall Line. Columbia Canal is situated 2,400 feet southeast of Irish Canal Worker Memorial.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include West Columbia and Columbia.

West Columbia

Town

Photo: Abductive, CC0.

West Columbia, formerly Brookland, is a city and commuter town in the suburban eastern sections of Lexington County, South Carolina, United States. As of the 2020 census, West Columbia had a population of 17,416.

Columbia

Photo: DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Columbia is the capital city and second largest city in South Carolina. It is home to the main campus of the University of South Carolina, and to the Army's Fort Jackson.

Elmwood Park

Hamlet

Elmwood Park is a residential neighborhood and historic district in what is now the center of Columbia, South Carolina. Founded in the early 1900s, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Elmwood Park Historic District in 1991.

Irish Canal Worker Memorial

Type: Memorial
Category: historic site
Location: Richland County, South Carolina, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

34.00294° or 34° 0′ 11″ north

Longitude

-81.0534° or 81° 3′ 12″ west

Open location code

866W2W3W+5J

OpenStreetMap ID

node 12212811106

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Riverfront Park Amphitheater and Riverfront Park.

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