Annual Report of the State Engineer and Surveyor for the Year 1906
A brief description of this and the other canals along the Catawba River is on page 1398.
 

Catawba Canal
A brief description and history of the canal.

Catawba Canal
A brief history and description of the canal. Includes a map.
 

Chester District map – 1825
Includes the route of the canal.

Chronicling America
A set of historical newspaper articles which make reference to the canal.

Digital Public Library of America
Link to a historical document.

Handbook of South Carolina - 1908
A brief description of this and other state canals begins on page 500.

Mitchell's Compendium of the Internal Improvements of the United States – 1835
A brief description of the canals along the Catawba is on page 53.

Report of the Commissioners of the State Sinking Fund to the General Assembly of South Carolina – 1895
A report on a sale of part of the canal begins on page 1355.

Report on the Internal Commerce of the United States – 1886
A brief description is on page 263.

State Parks of the South
A brief history is on page 300.

The Letters of Pierce Butler, 1790-1794: Nation Building and Enterprise in the New American Republic
A brief biography of an engineer of the canal is on page 58.

The Urban Establishment: Upper Strata in Boston, New York, Charleston, Chicago, and Los Angeles
A brief history is on page 350.

Unification of a Slave State: The Rise of the Planter Class in the South Carolina Backcountry, 1760-1808
A brief history is on page 245.