Cooper River Forum
Join the Cooper River ForumRevering and protecting
Celebrating culture, history and community
Fostering collaboration for positive growth
The Cooper River Forum envisions a future where our community values and celebrates cultural and historical assets, bountiful forests and landscapes, clean water, beautiful wildlife, and ample recreational opportunities—all hallmarks of our unique community today.
The Cooper River Forum is an ever-expanding group of neighbors connecting with each other to celebrate and protect the rural lifestyle along the Cooper River.
We are farmers and foresters, property owners and passers through; we are monks and moms, boaters and birders, and everything in between. But mostly, we are lovers of this particular Lowcountry landscape and passionate about its protection.
Our work is first and foremost a collaborative conversation.
Our focus is protecting and promoting the Cooper River Corridor—a region of native people’s hunting grounds and old rice fields, a corridor steeped in Huguenot history and the shadows of the plantation economy, yet a place of enduring and incomparable beauty.
The Cooper River Forum seeks to bring together the community, including stakeholders and property owners within the Cooper River Corridor, conservation and advocacy partners, policy makers at the state and county level, and those who use this area recreationally.
The Forum believes that creating a strong sense of place identifying this landscape is a first step toward protecting it.
Our goal is to strengthen and build on recognition already in place, when the National Register of Historic Places in 2003 added a 30,020-acre section of the region centered along both branches of the Cooper River to its official list of the Nation's historic places worthy of preservation, thereby establishing the Cooper River Historic District. The Cooper River Corridor is roughly the Berkeley County region that extends from Moncks Corner to Huger and from the West Bank of the Cooper River to the Francis Marion National Forest, including the main corridor of Highway 402.
The Cooper River Forum seeks to amplify what the National Register underscored: the intrinsic value of this intact historic and cultural landscape.
