Ghost town lake lanier georgia. A handful of gravesites had been submerged. Empty ghost towns drag people down to the bottom of a cursed lake. 38000 acres of water for boating drinking water and hydroelectric power.
This popular georgia lake is a must for summer vacations and weekend trips to get away from it all. Built in the 1950s lake lanier is a man made lake with an eerie construction. Youll be hard pressed to find georgians that havent heard of the famed lake lanier let alone visited.
Since 1994 there have been over 160 deaths reported on the lake according to the department of natural resources. Its one of georgias top tourist attractions but many visitors have no idea lake lanier wasnt always as it is today. Lying in the northern part of the us.
The buford dam on lake lanier was a billion dollar project. Lake lanier officially lake sidney lanier is a reservoir in the northern portion of the us. The groundbreaking was.
Petersburg georgia is now an underwater ghost town after the army corps of engineers flooded more than 72000 acres to build what is today called thurmond lake. State of georgiait was created by the completion of buford dam on the chattahoochee river in 1956 and is also fed by the waters of the chestatee riverthe lake encompasses 38000 acres 150 km 2 or 59 square miles 150 km 2 of water and 692 miles 1114 km of shoreline at normal level a full. Long before fish made their homes in the beautiful lake strom thurmond people lived worked raised their families and fell in love all beneath those choppy waters.
The sinister story behind this popular georgia lake will give you chills. In order to get it to the depth they wanted the us government bought or forced out over 250 families 15 businesses and 20 cemeteries so they. Potentially hauntings aside lake lanier is one of americas most deadly lakes.
Lake lanier is one of georgias largest tourist destinations with around 7 million visitors per year. Along the lakes bottom one can eerily find towns complete with roads walls and houses intact like an abandoned ghost town immersed in water.