You’ll find Lake Lanier’s dark past traces back to 1912, when racial violence drove over 1,000 Black residents from the prosperous town of Oscarville. By 1950, the U.S. Army Corps flooded 50,000 acres to create Georgia’s largest reservoir, submerging the remains of this ghost town along with churches, businesses, and some unmarked graves. Today, beneath the lake’s murky waters, concrete foundations and old roads tell silent stories of displaced communities and unexplained phenomena.
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10.1 Are There Any Restricted Areas of Lake Lanier Where Swimming Is Prohibited?…