 The properties that make up today's Congaree National Park, near Columbia, and the Francis Beidler Forest, near Orangeburg, both trace their ownership through Beidler and the Santee Cypress Company.Both of these land parcels have since been enrolled on the Ramsar list of wetlands of international importance.Beidler used part of the fortune earned from the Santee River Cypress Lumber Company to bequeath $1.5 million (in 1924 USD) to the Illinois-based Francis Beidler Foundation.