Lake lanier georgia bottom. 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. The groundbreaking was. Lake lanier officially lake sidney lanier is a reservoir in the northern portion of the us.
38000 acres of water for boating drinking water and hydroelectric power. Its one of georgias top tourist attractions but many visitors have no idea lake lanier wasnt always as it is today. Lake sindey lanier was created in the 1950s as an answer to the areas water supply needs including those of the growing metropolitan area of atlanta.
Lanier is the largest lake in georgia having nearly 700 miles of shoreline spread over 38000 acres. The racetrack was called the gainesville speedway. Along the lakes bottom one can eerily find towns complete with roads walls and houses intact like an abandoned ghost town immersed in water.
The water in lake lanier comes from georgias blue ridge mountains. It was a dirt track where stock cars. After much effort on the part of many people the groundbreaking for the project which included the new buford dam took place in the spring of 1950.
The buford dam on lake lanier was a billion dollar project. When lake lanier was filled in the 1950s it covered whole forests roads bridges and even a race track. Yet even with its haunted tales lake lanier is one of georgias largest tourist destinations with around 7 million visitors per year.
Twitter users claimed a georgia lake was haunted after two boaters went missing after a wednesday boat crash. Lake lanier has a dark past which has led some people to claim the lake is sinister.