Lost towns of Lake Murray: How a town was flooded in South Carolina
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Published 2021-07-06
But one time, that area was known as the Saluda River Valley. It was settled in the 1750's by German, Swiss, and Dutch immigrants, with two major towns: Dutch Fork and Saxe Gotha.
But those towns are no more, they were buried in water after SCE&G bought the land, creating the lake. The towns were both flooded, all but erased from history. All that remains now are remnants of a past that few people alive know little about.
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All Comments (21)
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My ancestors are buried there. The video is very interesting but the back ground music is too loud.
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Swimming here as a kid always was creeped out thinking about the graves and communities underwater.
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Majority black American town destroyed!! The number of unmarked slave graves is tragic!, those towns consisted of run away slaves, native Americans and white people running from the law.
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The Divers are from Scuba Johns Dive Shop in Lexington. Come dive into Lake Murray History with us! 😀
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Why they lie like that
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This is so interesting...but some of the music was so loud I couldn’t understand what was scrawled into the bridge and more
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So sad smh so many towns underwater
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The Deep House is a good horror movie about a haunted house under a lake. I'm sure lake mead has some pretty spooky stories!👻🏠👻
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Black towns always get drowned 🙃now it’s gentrification
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I will have to look into to this. My Great Grandfather owned land and was pushed out.
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They were lucky to make it out of that water, if that was lake Lanier, it probably would of been over with!
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Destroyed black towns
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This was a fun video, when I lived on Lake Murray 96~2002 @Pleasure Cove tip that lake was my back yard and one of the Best places to raise my two sons ❤ the neighbors and locals had told me about the bombing and all about the things under the water and in this video I was able to get a glimpse of it. So thank you for sharing the history of the area and the amazing under water shots. It's in a way sad when I try to imagine what all those people must have went through! Because I'm positive not all were Willing and we all know what Big money does in those situations. Y'all be safe down there.
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wtf lol this was a black town
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My grandfather was one of the engineers of the Saluda Dam project.
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Imagine being black from South Carolina with the last name Murray and watching this knowing your ancestors are the ones under that water.
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Where did they get the water from?
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That's a damn shame. Therefore, shame on the State of South Carolina for allowing the flooding of the Congaree Indians' ancestral land to take place to begin with!
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Part of my family settled Saxe Gotha IN 1737.
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With a black town underneath
