they explored areas around the congaree, the santee, and the watery rivers. and they were very taken by what they saw. and they decided that they would start buying up the land. in time, these guys came to control something like 200,000 acres. this one company only in south carolina came to control something like 200,000 acres. most of which they owned, and some of which they only owned the timber rights to. but, in any case they controlled the tumor growing on something like 315 square miles. that is a lot of land. a lot of land. so, they built on the banks of the santee river. they built a company town, and corporate headquarters for their business. their business was called the santee river cypress come in a. and they built it for permanence. they expected to stay for a very long time. this was not a cut and run operation. they had so much land they really thought they would stay a long time, and they started out only by cutting old-growth cypress. they left everything else, and they built this pretty sophisticated, pretty expensive, highly capitalized com