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Displaced by Saluda Dam, South Carolina

Displaced by Saluda Dam, South Carolina

This rock house, built around 1800, now lies beneath Lake Murray. The reservoir displaced communities--including Dutch Fork and Saxe Gotha--settled by German, Dutch, and Swiss immigrants in the eighteenth century.

About this community

Dam
Saluda Dam
River
Saluda River
Established
1750s
Inundated
1930
Population
5,000