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On April 4, 1989, the State of Georgia legislature passed House Resolution No. 115 making "Clarks Hill" the official state name for both the dam and associated reservoir. [2] Accordingly, Georgia's state map still refers to the lake as Clarks Hill. [9] Many residents of Georgia as well as South Carolina still refer to the lake by its original name.
J. Strom Thurmond Dam, [1] also known in Georgia as Clarks Hill Dam, is a concrete-gravity and embankment dam located 22 miles (35 km) north of Augusta, Georgia on the Savannah River at the border of South Carolina and Georgia, creating Lake Strom Thurmond. U.S. Route 221 (and Georgia State Route 150 on the Georgia side of the state line) cross it.
Germany Creek is a stream in McDuffie County in the U.S. state of Georgia. [1] A variant name is "German Creek". [1] It empties into Lake Strom Thurmond (Clarks Hill Lake) adjacent to the community of Raysville.
The Flood Control Act of 1966 authorized construction of a new reservoir on the Savannah River to be named Trotters Shoals Lake and Dam. The lake and dam were renamed in 1987 after Georgia senator Richard Brevard Russell Jr. in the same bill that also renamed Clarks Hill Lake to Lake Strom Thurmond. Construction on the new dam began in 1974 and ...
sometimes considered a single lake with Lower Red Lake (Minnesota) 70: ... Clarks Hill Lake: Georgia - South Carolina: 1,730,000 acre⋅ft (2.13 km 3) 180 ft (55 m)
Clarks Hill or Clark Hill can refer to some places in the United States: Clarks Hill, Indiana; Clark Hill (Oneida County, New York) Clarks Hill, South Carolina; Lake Strom Thurmond, formerly known as Clarks Hill Reservoir
The community is on a peninsula jutting into Lake Strom Thurmond (Clarks Hill Lake) between Big Creek and Germany Creek arms of the lake. Georgia Route 43 passes through the community. [ 2 ]
Fort Charlotte is located in McCormick County, South Carolina, United States, founded in 1768, and now beneath the waters of the J. Strom Thurmond Lake, Clarks Hill Lake. Origins [ edit ]