Damnoen Saduak Floating Market was started about the same time with the canal bearing the same name. King Rama IV of the Rattanakosin Period (1851-1868) ordered Phraya Srisuriyawong to be responsible for digging a 35-km-long canal to connect the Thachin River in Samutsakhon and the Maeklong River in Samutsongkhram.