Lost towns of Lake Murray: How a town was flooded in South Carolina

Lost towns lie beneath the waters of Lake Murray in South Carolina.
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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  • @NorrisStanfield-en4kb
    @NorrisStanfield-en4kb Жыл бұрын

    My ancestors are buried there. The video is very interesting but the back ground music is too loud.

  • @dezlobands5426
    @dezlobands54262 жыл бұрын

    Destroyed black towns

  • @noaht5191
    @noaht51912 жыл бұрын

    Swimming here as a kid always was creeped out thinking about the graves and communities underwater.

  • @DoctorAlright

    @DoctorAlright

    2 жыл бұрын

    I used to grab the little grass underwater and dive under and tickle my friends feet with it, then I would jump out at him and terrify him into the boat so I got the water to myself. I told him that if he told parents, the spirit of the lake would avenge its fallen comrades.

  • @leilaniLA

    @leilaniLA

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DoctorAlright you have to question why you would desire to do those things. It means that you’re spiritually OFF. At least at that point.

  • @DoctorAlright

    @DoctorAlright

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@leilaniLA I was just a cruel kid doing cruel kid things

  • @leilaniLA

    @leilaniLA

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DoctorAlright all the spirits will have their revenge especially the ones that are under lake Lanier in Georgia a.k.a. Oscarville.

  • @cd3064

    @cd3064

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@DoctorAlright better be careful, my best friends family just had a family friend who jumped in the water to help one of the little children that fell off the boat into the water when the current picked up , he wasn’t wearing a life jacket and in short time , everyone noticed that he was nowhere to be found and has been missing for a couple weeks still , they had to explain to rest of children and parents what just happened. Everyone was so terribly devastated. Very sad. 😞

  • @tyxfilmeditt
    @tyxfilmeditt2 жыл бұрын

    Black towns always get drowned 🙃now it’s gentrification

  • @autumnjohnson2127

    @autumnjohnson2127

    2 жыл бұрын

    I agree 100%

  • @chiefjadigga4667

    @chiefjadigga4667

    Жыл бұрын

    💯💯💯

  • @troylambert5140

    @troylambert5140

    Жыл бұрын

    Exactly right

  • @troylambert5140

    @troylambert5140

    Жыл бұрын

    Reparations need to be paid to foundational black Americans

  • @janatribble7286

    @janatribble7286

    Жыл бұрын

    This‼️‼️‼️‼️

  • @javionriley8739
    @javionriley87392 жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @blackmack8033

    @blackmack8033

    2 жыл бұрын

    Facts

  • @ashleykellon3374

    @ashleykellon3374

    2 жыл бұрын

    So tragic

  • @gandalflotr2898

    @gandalflotr2898

    Ай бұрын

    If God I bet he regretted create White people

  • @epicpika11

    @epicpika11

    26 күн бұрын

    Does your life revolve around race? Couldn't be me.

  • @gandalflotr2898

    @gandalflotr2898

    26 күн бұрын

    If God was real he would be like: I knew it was a mistake to create white people 🤦

  • @SouthCarolinaScubaDiving
    @SouthCarolinaScubaDiving2 жыл бұрын

    The Divers are from Scuba Johns Dive Shop in Lexington. Come dive into Lake Murray History with us! 😀

  • @battleaxe.
    @battleaxe. Жыл бұрын

    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!

  • @janatribble7286
    @janatribble7286 Жыл бұрын

    “They offered to move the graves” They didn’t give a damn about black/native graves. 🤦🏽‍♀️

  • @kdime87

    @kdime87

    Жыл бұрын

    Right, I cringed when I heard them utter those deceitful lies to make them seem like they were just a goof bunch of people just helping others.

  • @TheWolphEffect
    @TheWolphEffect2 жыл бұрын

    Imagine being black from South Carolina with the last name Murray and watching this knowing your ancestors are the ones under that water.

  • @battleaxe.

    @battleaxe.

    2 жыл бұрын

    EXACTLY! By making this video, they're exposing how evil and heartless their ancestors were! ✌💯

  • @TheWolphEffect

    @TheWolphEffect

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@battleaxe. facts.

  • @jamesmurray8558

    @jamesmurray8558

    2 жыл бұрын

    Which Murray are you? I am from Birmingham and have people in Portland. Would love to hear from you.

  • @TheWolphEffect

    @TheWolphEffect

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@jamesmurray8558 Kiawah Island SC

  • @jaipeterson786

    @jaipeterson786

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sad asf fr they need to have something for them

  • @robthomas5365
    @robthomas53652 жыл бұрын

    Why they lie like that

  • @kdime87

    @kdime87

    Жыл бұрын

    Satan sends his evil to “ Lie, Steal and Kill” and most of his workers are very good at all three.

  • @Donovan_shingle

    @Donovan_shingle

    17 күн бұрын

    Man what are you two even talkin about

  • @clarenceleggett607
    @clarenceleggett6072 жыл бұрын

    wtf lol this was a black town

  • @ORIGINALREDY2MIX
    @ORIGINALREDY2MIX2 жыл бұрын

    So sad smh so many towns underwater

  • @hunterdeal7390
    @hunterdeal7390 Жыл бұрын

    Background music way too loud

  • @Jamiedreamweaver
    @Jamiedreamweaver2 жыл бұрын

    This is so interesting...but some of the music was so loud I couldn’t understand what was scrawled into the bridge and more

  • @integrityborn6156
    @integrityborn61562 жыл бұрын

    They were lucky to make it out of that water, if that was lake Lanier, it probably would of been over with!

  • @hemiwarrior6226

    @hemiwarrior6226

    Жыл бұрын

    I was thinking that. That lake doesn't have all the ghost sightings, drownings and unexplained disappearances that Lanier does. I've had plenty of those in my time growing up there. You always get the general feeling that you're being pulled down when swimming, but I have felt hands grab my legs, I've seen faces in the water, been to parts of the lake that I could never find again despite GPS info, but probably the most chilling things I remember was being on the shore on a friend's land one night while we were toasting marshmallows on a campfire. All the sounds of a summer night in Georgia just died. No crickets, no frogs, no wind, even the crackling of the campfire got quiet. Then all three of us suddenly heard church bells. There was no church around, but more concerningly, the sound seemed to be coming from the water. I walked to it and put my head in and the sound was most definitely coming from below. The next morning, we did some research and found out that one of Oscarville's churches was near where we heard the sound.

  • @cwisted5308

    @cwisted5308

    Жыл бұрын

    @@hemiwarrior6226 Lake Lanier is scary as hell. I only went in a few times abck in high school and always had a very uneasy feeling. I also had a small cut on my finger and maybe 2 hours after i got out it was completely infected and almost a green color which was nasty. I refuse to ever get into that alek again its so dangerous. Not just the scary stories about it but also the insane amount of drunk people on that lake every weekend getting into boating accidents. My family has a place on lake Oconee and we love going there. It's starting to get crowded but its so much safer than Lanier. The main thing is just staying out of the northern part of the lake and you will be fine. Im completely done with Lanier though. Never again

  • @dawnofthewalkers4915

    @dawnofthewalkers4915

    4 ай бұрын

    I live like an hour away from lake Lanier, place is cursed.

  • @zchris87v80

    @zchris87v80

    13 күн бұрын

    ​@@hemiwarrior6226where was this at specifically? I love this kind of stuff.

  • @mamiep01
    @mamiep01 Жыл бұрын

    I will have to look into to this. My Great Grandfather owned land and was pushed out.

  • @Paul-bh1px
    @Paul-bh1px2 жыл бұрын

    With a black town underneath

  • @mamiep01

    @mamiep01

    Жыл бұрын

    My Great Grandfather was pushed out. I will check into it.

  • @michaelkay8914
    @michaelkay8914 Жыл бұрын

    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!👻🏠👻

  • @staceyfelts6346
    @staceyfelts6346 Жыл бұрын

    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.

  • @AccessDude61
    @AccessDude61 Жыл бұрын

    Of course they left a lot out. There were many in the black towns that refused to leave because it was their home, so they were flooded alive. And yes they were black families but of course they leave that tidbit of history out

  • @illlyrical7976
    @illlyrical7976 Жыл бұрын

    This was an Indian town. “Negro” “Colored” and “Black” were colonization classifications of American Indians. It’s time we remember who we are. Understand that this is your land and you have been lied to. Peace.

  • @reggieross4125

    @reggieross4125

    Жыл бұрын

    Facts!!

  • @MrZw86

    @MrZw86

    Жыл бұрын

    sound like these lakes were made through genocide.

  • @MrZw86

    @MrZw86

    Жыл бұрын

    my brother was telling me about the black native people

  • @theweirdness321

    @theweirdness321

    8 ай бұрын

    Yess!! Ppl keep tryna make it seem like im delusional or “stealing another minority culture” when we are that culture , we are one .

  • @CM-fh4lp
    @CM-fh4lp2 жыл бұрын

    I think it's interesting how the history of this lake from several places, never mentions that there is a history of towns at the bottom of man made lakes but that that history has a much darker story. While I'm sure classism played a part in pushing out, relocating and displacing residents, this was capitalism and perhaps infrastructure, and not at all like the other towns ended up at the bottom of man made lakes. When white mobs attacked predominantly black towns and turned them into lakes. Residents were murdered, raped, and driven out until every last black American citizen was gone from that town and it happened across the country. Many towns like the Tulsa Race Massacre were destroyed, burned to the ground and rebuilt and renamed, but many found thrmselves at the bottom of man made lakes across the country. Given that ruins of cities found under water, are considered unique stories, and peak interests, AND this one happened around the same time that towns from the Red Summer riots and massacres, also ended up at the bottom of man made lakes, there should be be a mention specifying this lakes creation was unlike other man made lakes created in that era. Unfortunately much of vital American history isn't taught and has been covered up. This has been intentional. It's why black history has remained black history month. A month isn't long enough to cover the American black history that we arent aware of. The goal was that it would eventually just find itself in the normal curriculum, written into textbooks and that black history in this country could be what it is, American history. So we learn about the same dozen or so black figures and are conditioned to believe that if they had contributed anything significant, we'd know about it, and the idea white figures in our textbooks taking credit for the successes of black people throughout history doesn't cross our minds because of race classification labeled those with black skin as unintelligent and lazy......lol, but at the same time, having super strength and built\wired for manual labor....AND NOW, that all of this history is being uncovered, the same white oligarchs that lied to the poor white farmers are lying to the poor white working class once again and manipulating their base because they know their base isn't educated enough to question it, into thinking teaching American history as it happened is divisive and anti white. They refused to acknowledge what CRT is intentionally so that the little bit of basic history we are taught about American history, could be labeled as CRT. They are literally trying to ban a children's book on Rosa Parks somewhere. The author has written other books about several different historical heros and figures, including George Washington and Neil Armstrong. But Rosa Parks is now CRT. Anyway. I know I went off the map here but it all ties together and the whole Rosa Parks kids book thing just has me smdh and this video reminding me of how SOOOO many people had no idea about what the TulsaRaceMassacre was, even people living IN Oklahoma!!! Because it's literally not taught. That people didn't know what Juneteenth was and what all these people are having knee jerk tantrums about CRT, thinking that a worksheet about Rosa Parks is CRT, because the white supremacists in the GOP panicked over the national discussion of history being taught inaccurately and covered up and knowledge in the hands of the people is their biggest threat, and CRT was the perfect boogie man for them to continue to divide and conquer to maintain the status quo and I'm so pissed at Establishment Democrats need for power resulting in spine less complacency and flaky virtue signaling. Oy

  • @battleaxe.

    @battleaxe.

    2 жыл бұрын

    AMEN to your testimony Sir! This channel attempts to make it seem as though no human suffering was involved. The people that were forcibly REMOVED, the Black Congaree Indians, from their ancestral land is simply another historical and criminal cover-up. I am Santee Indian from the lower Santee River near the split Charleston and Georgetown Counties lines. ✌🙏👈

  • @javionriley8739

    @javionriley8739

    2 жыл бұрын

    I love everything you just said 🙌🏿🙌🏿 as a black American who’s family descend from those who had to leave the town underneath lake Murray!!

  • @Phoenixxx215

    @Phoenixxx215

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactly!?!

  • @Aaron565

    @Aaron565

    2 жыл бұрын

    if there were slave graves, the owners were either black or white but its unlikely the town was all black ppl

  • @22loaded01

    @22loaded01

    Жыл бұрын

    There is a lot of posters and quotes from some of the people who witnessed the Tulsa race massacre in the okc underground tunnels. Okc is close to me but Tulsa is a few hours from me

  • @kdime87
    @kdime87 Жыл бұрын

    With these people, one has to (Read Between The Lines) of all their lies and deceit.

  • @herbs4life
    @herbs4life2 жыл бұрын

    Where did they get the water from?

  • @ChocLitBar

    @ChocLitBar

    Жыл бұрын

    Man-made lakes are usually constructed by using a dam to divert a portion of a river to store the water within a reservoir. During seasonal changes, water runoff and precipitation add to the reservoir, which helps in the prevention of evaporation.

  • @toddforhetz

    @toddforhetz

    4 ай бұрын

    people donated bottles of water

  • @johnwilburn

    @johnwilburn

    3 ай бұрын

    They've left a garden hose running since 1912.

  • @tammystansell406

    @tammystansell406

    Ай бұрын

    Tha Saluda River I believe. Lots of river dams and man made lakes in SC. Lake Hartwell and Jocassee are also huge lakes. I had ancestors from these areas.

  • @Toytonia

    @Toytonia

    17 күн бұрын

    @@johnwilburn right 😂😂😂

  • @DJHaydinofficial
    @DJHaydinofficial Жыл бұрын

    Now, because the lake levels are down tops of tombstones can be seen 😧

  • @lifewithcamille517
    @lifewithcamille51710 ай бұрын

    This is terrible how enslaved people have been treated in life and death

  • @Msgoddessk
    @Msgoddessk11 ай бұрын

    Yall lying about paying everyone but we understand yall sensitivity to looking bad.

  • @ryanodell3790
    @ryanodell37902 жыл бұрын

    I did not know there was a bridge

  • @SouthCarolinaScubaDiving

    @SouthCarolinaScubaDiving

    2 жыл бұрын

    Wyse Ferry Bridge. We dive it regularly. Double Span Steel bridge.

  • @TBrown-ni9fm
    @TBrown-ni9fm Жыл бұрын

    German, Swiss, and Dutch immigrants. Tell the truth. Detail.

  • @livefully7568

    @livefully7568

    Жыл бұрын

    they pretend that enslaved were not immigrants

  • @javionriley8739

    @javionriley8739

    Жыл бұрын

    Colonizer’s

  • @cosmicenigmarevealed
    @cosmicenigmarevealedАй бұрын

    Perfect music to go with a horrific story.

  • @HKPSG1Shooter
    @HKPSG1Shooter9 ай бұрын

    My grandfather was one of the engineers of the Saluda Dam project.

  • @TheJagjr4450
    @TheJagjr445011 ай бұрын

    Part of my family settled Saxe Gotha IN 1737.

  • @breacobbs8862
    @breacobbs8862 Жыл бұрын

    This was not lost it was hidden ! Do people actually hear themselves talk the title is misleading and let’s just tell the truth can’t hide it anymore

  • @jocelyngardner5711
    @jocelyngardner57112 жыл бұрын

    😩😩😩 Ridiculous liar’s

  • @darktoadone5068
    @darktoadone506811 ай бұрын

    Lake Marion is the same way.

  • @sweetmichelle5987
    @sweetmichelle59872 жыл бұрын

    I think y’all mispronounced INDIGENOUS LAND... Many indigenous were classified as slaves during that era and have been reclassified and renamed several times over history. We know who we are.

  • @mrs.liabletuhpostanythang4224
    @mrs.liabletuhpostanythang4224 Жыл бұрын

    So disrespectful

  • @lifewithcamille517
    @lifewithcamille51710 ай бұрын

    No background music is necessary when discussing such a sensitive subject

  • @danautry1795
    @danautry17952 жыл бұрын

    Id always heard fort jackson did their training for WWII there.. Id been told there was a b-52 jet down there from doing some training but who knows couldve been a different lake.

  • @underworldgrimm3709

    @underworldgrimm3709

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yep. They’re down there. They’ve even pulled up a few.

  • @LexMedic1216

    @LexMedic1216

    Жыл бұрын

    During WWII B25 bomber crews from the Columbia Army Air Base in West Columbia did training on Lake Murray. Several planes were reported to have crashed with all but one salvaged during the war. The last one was raised in 2005 and is now partly on display at THE SOUTHERN MUSEUM OF FLIGHT in Birmingham AL.

  • @jonathanbrown4933
    @jonathanbrown4933 Жыл бұрын

    they should drain the water out and rebuild the towns, the same with Lebennon New Jersey

  • @stefaniehauser6168

    @stefaniehauser6168

    Жыл бұрын

    they can't, many cities rely on this lake for drinking water.

  • @DavidWoods-rk8st
    @DavidWoods-rk8st Жыл бұрын

    Lake lainier is probably haunted

  • @tempo1889
    @tempo18898 күн бұрын

    Saw this after listening to floods by Pantera.

  • @owenmccullough6153
    @owenmccullough61532 жыл бұрын

    I live on lake Murray and we own some land you were on

  • @hannnahannna1134
    @hannnahannna11342 жыл бұрын

    Imagine how much they needed to let loose just to do this

  • @patblackwell6098
    @patblackwell60982 жыл бұрын

    I am related to some who lived under the lake. I appreciate these discoveries!

  • @livefully7568

    @livefully7568

    Жыл бұрын

    decended from merfolk;)

  • @battleaxe.

    @battleaxe.

    Жыл бұрын

    You are "related" to some of these people under the water??

  • @darlahays2471

    @darlahays2471

    Жыл бұрын

    They lived under the lake? Are they fish? How do you live under a lake 🙄

  • @thaafrikanmedicinewombman2096
    @thaafrikanmedicinewombman209611 ай бұрын

    Black town destroyed and buried under water many were killed and ran out of the town and they’re exploring it 😢 wow

  • @tyeballard71
    @tyeballard71 Жыл бұрын

    There's some truths left out i see..... who else lived there????? Tell all of it

  • @carylmccarley6765
    @carylmccarley6765 Жыл бұрын

    Graves at the bottom of the lake where people lived and swam and water-skier

  • @jamesmurray8558
    @jamesmurray85582 жыл бұрын

    Which Murray are you?I am from Birmingham and have people in Portland. I was at Mt.St.Helens. Get in touch with I.

  • @Laythanthefortniteplayer
    @Laythanthefortniteplayer11 ай бұрын

    I found a big brick in lake murray

  • @fffghh1370
    @fffghh1370 Жыл бұрын

    A black town at that

  • @user-zr2xt6hl7e
    @user-zr2xt6hl7e10 ай бұрын

    How can you know this and be on this property at peace 🙏🏾, the History of America 🇺🇸 just got bigger

  • @yamaha115cc3
    @yamaha115cc3 Жыл бұрын

    I feel bad for America I feel more bad for myself that I have to live here 🤦

  • @smpl14
    @smpl142 жыл бұрын

    It's scary I swim in there all the time

  • @cd3064

    @cd3064

    2 жыл бұрын

    Be careful, so many drown or disappear , my best friends family friend disappeared in the current a couple weeks ago and all family is so devastated. 😢😞

  • @anubisentertainment4108

    @anubisentertainment4108

    Жыл бұрын

    That’s because it’s our turn now to do what was done to my people ⚔️ and I’m sorry for nobody lost leave my land now or you all we just get it much worse than my people did 🔥that why white people dropping dead 💀 it’s pay back time 😡😡

  • @melanatedlyunapologetic6040
    @melanatedlyunapologetic6040 Жыл бұрын

    hmmmmmmmm never heard this version

  • @JohnFichtner
    @JohnFichtner4 ай бұрын

    I wish the music wasn't so loud. It's difficult to understand what the guys are saying

  • @glizzybenzin0105
    @glizzybenzin010511 ай бұрын

    a black town so they flooded it and called it lexington changed to a white town

  • @Augustclover21
    @Augustclover215 ай бұрын

    I’m related to the Saltzer that settled there wonder if there graves are there!? 😮

  • @pashiell2268
    @pashiell2268 Жыл бұрын

    This music is too loud

  • @conniekepke7676
    @conniekepke767610 күн бұрын

    Ya CAN'T hear cuz of tht music

  • @hannacarter1352
    @hannacarter135210 ай бұрын

    People poop 💩 in the water. I went once an 💩 floated by. Thank God I was in a boat...

  • @stepbromlbb
    @stepbromlbb Жыл бұрын

    Sooo is lake Murray jocassee and lanier all haunted ?

  • @johnbeverly7236
    @johnbeverly7236 Жыл бұрын

    🍁

  • @deborahrichie3023
    @deborahrichie30232 жыл бұрын

    Please turn the music down, better yet turn it off. I can't understand what they are saying. What they are saying is probably interesting, the music doesn't make the video interesting at all!! Thank you.

  • @anubisentertainment4108
    @anubisentertainment4108 Жыл бұрын

    Now it time for pay back it’s up on themselves right now and I will make sure our people get paid back in full ⚔️🗡😡it’s not a game I’m here on earth for this reason is to get Justice for our ancestors

  • @mamiep01

    @mamiep01

    Жыл бұрын

    Let me know. My Great Grandfather was pushed out.

  • @dragonart777
    @dragonart7772 жыл бұрын

    and now all you see is outsiders from nyc and pa coming to fish.

  • @VL1975

    @VL1975

    2 жыл бұрын

    We have enough and better fishing in PA. No need to come down to a man made lake in SC. lol

  • @ceeburts

    @ceeburts

    Жыл бұрын

    They eating fish and people! Those fish are growing from human flesh! So anybody eating fish out that water is eating human flesh! Ain’t no way!

  • @gannondorion2475
    @gannondorion24753 ай бұрын

    What would it cost to remove the dam? If we found an alternative power source we could potentially move back lol.

  • @authenticrebuilds9247

    @authenticrebuilds9247

    2 ай бұрын

    go nuclear, still a body of water is usually needed for cooling, lake Keowee for example. Or do without electric heat and air

  • @crowbaril903
    @crowbaril9038 ай бұрын

    Everyone I know has had to sell their homes due to all the sewage

  • @mommylewslearningcorner8625
    @mommylewslearningcorner86252 жыл бұрын

    Always lying 🤥

  • @mrsfinale5221
    @mrsfinale5221 Жыл бұрын

    Report it right or not at all.

  • @tiddablacksaav8634
    @tiddablacksaav8634 Жыл бұрын

    Black Europeans huh? I missed this part in school

  • @leonwilliams6465
    @leonwilliams64652 жыл бұрын

    Don’t believe everything you hear about towns like this !!!

  • @mamiep01
    @mamiep01 Жыл бұрын

    Music is awful.

  • @FUfon-gf5ph
    @FUfon-gf5ph10 ай бұрын

    Thsts Appaling Greed breeds evil

  • @elliottbradley6302
    @elliottbradley63024 ай бұрын

    Is it true that this town was predominately """Indian,Black communities...???!!!!....🙏🏽

  • @WESDALLASTEXBOI
    @WESDALLASTEXBOI Жыл бұрын

    No all black town was force to leave with no money

  • @Badbostonbitch
    @Badbostonbitch Жыл бұрын

    Evil

  • @Helpingdaddyinprison
    @Helpingdaddyinprison3 ай бұрын

    But how did they flood them ?