Lake lanier georgia underwater ghost town. Its one of georgias top tourist attractions but many visitors have no idea lake lanier wasnt always as it is today. The groundbreaking was. Founded in the early 1800s as one of the first gold rush towns of north georgia burton was a farm town of around 200 people.
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. A handful of gravesites had been submerged. When lake lanier was filled in the 1950s it covered whole forests roads bridges and even a race track.
The racetrack was called the gainesville speedway. Lake lanier officially lake sidney lanier is a reservoir in the northern portion of the us. Up until 1917 burton was not a lake but was the largest town in rabun county.
State of georgia sprawled out among the foothills of the north georgia mountains for 26 miles 75 meters 258 feet deep at its deepest point and with an area of 150 km2 59 square miles of water and 1114 km 692 miles of shoreline is lake sidney lanier commonly referred to as simply lake lanier. 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. Along the lakes bottom one can eerily find towns complete with roads walls and houses intact like an abandoned ghost town immersed in water.
38000 acres of water for boating drinking water and hydroelectric power. Lake lanier is one of georgias largest tourist destinations with around 7 million visitors per year. Lake lanier is a north georgia jewel.
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. Built in the 1950s lake lanier is a man made lake with an eerie construction. Lying in the northern part of the us.
It was a dirt track where stock cars. But whats most fascinating about this underwater ghost town is that it had quite a rich and respectable history.