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Kerr Lake is the largest lake in Virginia, with 850 miles (1,370 km) of shoreline located in Vance, Granville, and Warren counties in North Carolina, as well as Mecklenburg, Charlotte, and Halifax counties in Virginia.
- Farms and Grave Sites Beneath Jordan Lake
- Fontana Lake: Underwater Ghost Town of Judson
- Kerr Lake: Entire Train Remains from Over A Century Ago
- Lake Norman: Airplane Crash Dates Back to 1970s
- Podcast: Listen to Lost Mysteries Beneath NC Lakes
Jordan Lake is a large, manmade lake created in the 1960s. The surrounding area, known as the New Hope Valley, was prone to flooding, which helped develop rich soil that lured European settlers to farm the land as early as the 1700s. Remnants of those farms and homes are still beneath Jordan Lake. Several rural communities grew within the New Hope ...
Sometimes, when water levels are low, you can actually see rooftops from the tallest remaining structures of the ghost town beneath Fontana Lake. The small mountain town of Judson was flooded beneath Fontana Lake when the dam was first created in the 1940s to help create more hydroelectric power for WWII. Thousands of acres were flooded in Swain Co...
Long before Kerr Lake was created in 1952, a tall railroad trestle ran across the previous body of water, known as Nutbrush Creek. In 1918, Engine Number 2 tried to cross the trestle, which had been weakened by a forest fire. The trestle collapsed, dropping Engine Number 2 into the creek below--where it remains to this very day. Now a train engine,...
Not everything beneath the surface of Lake Norman submerged in 1964. A decade after the creation of the lake, a plane sank in the summer of 1974. The plane was discovered in 2013, when the Charlotte Fire Department said a dive team was doing practice drills when they noticed the submerged plane with their sonar equipment. The plane is about 90 feet...
WRAL's Hidden Historian Heather Leah is a seventh-generation North Carolinian with a passion for preserving the state's culture and history. Listen as WRAL's Amanda Lamb and Heather Leah discuss mysteries and ghost towns hidden beneath North Carolina lakes in our latest podcast.
View Joan Gillen Kerr results including current home address, phone number, relatives & property records with Whitepages. We found 134 people named Joan Gillen Kerr in the US.
This directory seeks to address—and redress—the lack of a comprehensive codex of Southern women artists active between the late 1890s and the early 1960s, the period surveyed in TJC’s most recent book, Central to Their Lives: Southern Women Artists in the Johnson Collection.
The John H. Kerr (Buggs Island) Lake is the result of a dam that was built from 1947 through 1952 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a spot in Mecklenburg County, Virginia, on the Roanoke River a few hundred feet upstream from an island belonging to the descendants of Samuel Bugg.
Allison Mills (born May 9, 1951), also known as Alley Bean, is an American actress, known for her roles on television. She starred as Norma Arnold, in the coming-of-age ABC comedy series, The Wonder Years (1988–1993).
