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

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

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

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

Why they lie like that

Destroyed black towns

So sad smh so many towns underwater

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

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

wtf lol this was a black town

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

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!

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

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.

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!👻🏠👻

Background music way too loud

Black towns always get drowned 🙃now it’s gentrification

Perfect music to go with a horrific story.

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.

With a black town underneath

Where did they get the water from?

Part of my family settled Saxe Gotha IN 1737.

I did not know there was a bridge

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

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

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

Lake Marion is the same way.

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

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

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.

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

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

No background music is necessary when discussing such a sensitive subject

hmmmmmmmm never heard this version

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

😩😩😩 Ridiculous liar’s

Lake lainier is probably haunted

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

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

It's scary I swim in there all the time

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

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

I found a big brick in lake murray

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

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

This music is too loud

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

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

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

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.

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

Sooo is lake Murray jocassee and lanier all haunted ?

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

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

Report it right or not at all.

So disrespectful

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.

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

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

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

Always lying 🤥

A black town at that

Black Europeans huh? I missed this part in school

Music is awful.

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

Thsts Appaling Greed breeds evil

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

No all black town was force to leave with no money

Evil

But how did they flood them ?