enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Lake Lanier - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Lanier

    Lake Lanier (officially Lake ... Named for Confederate veteran and poet Sidney Lanier, [1] it was built and is operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for flood ...

  3. Oscarville, Georgia - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscarville,_Georgia

    Oscarville is supposedly one of multiple "drowned towns" beneath Lake Lanier. [11] Local legend alleges Lake Lanier to be haunted. [12] One commonly claimed reason for the supposed haunting is the high number of drowning deaths, [3] with over 500 deaths between the lake's formation and 2021. [5] 200 deaths occurred between 1994 and 2020. [13]

  4. Buford Dam - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buford_Dam

    Buford Dam is a dam in Buford, Georgia which is located at the southern end of Lake Lanier, [4] a reservoir formed by the construction of the dam in 1956. The dam itself is managed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers.

  5. Georgia's Lake Lanier has claimed over 200 lives. Why do ...

    www.aol.com/news/georgias-lake-lanier-claimed...

    Well before Lake Lanier was formed, the land it was built on was a bustling community called Oscarville, which formed in the late 1800s during the Reconstruction era. The town was majority white ...

  6. List of largest lakes of the United States by area - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_lakes_of...

    The area given is the normal or average area of the lake. The area of some lakes fluctuates substantially. ... Lake Lanier: Georgia: 59 sq mi 153 km 2: man-made 89 ...

  7. Earthquakes are shaking North Georgia. Here’s what may be ...

    www.aol.com/earthquakes-shaking-north-georgia...

    Levels in Lake Lanier have gone up and down at times in its history, but the lake’s elevation has remained fairly steady so far this year, data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers shows.

  8. Summerour Mound site - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summerour_Mound_site

    The mound was discovered by Joe Caldwell in 1951, as part of a project to survey the area prior to the construction of a dam to create the Buford Reservoir (now known as Lake Lanier). He undertook excavations with a team in the next few years. They found the mound summit was uncapped and a structure was added to the top.

  9. Usher's ex-wife wants to drain Georgia's largest lake, where ...

    www.aol.com/news/ushers-ex-wife-wants-drain...

    Located roughly an hour's drive northeast of Atlanta, Lake Lanier covers nearly 60 square miles (155 square kilometers) and has waters up to 160 feet (49 meters) deep. It's far from just a getaway ...