South Carolina – Lost Places

Chronologically by date of destruction: Hamburg | Lake Murray | Lake Marion, Lake Moultrie | J Strom Thurmond Lake | Savannah River Site

Hamburg

• Aiken County
• Historical overview - scroll down
• Henry Shultz and the Dead Town of Hamburg, SC - superb biographical info on Hamburg's founder
  
• Hamburg's Black History - includes info on Carpentersville community
• 1835 plat of the Town of Hamburg
• Alternate Town of Hamburg map - 1835 - PDF

Lake Murray – 1930

• Lexington, Newberry, Richland, and Saluda counties
• Historical overview - includes dates, geographical information
  
• SCE&G's History of Lake Murray - detailed account of dam's conception and construction
  
• Fox Movietone News - film footage of construction - Windows Media
  
• Lake Murray Backup Dam - earthquake safety - Adobe Reader
  –  Wins Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award
  
• Maps of Lake Murray and vicinity
• Maps of Lexington County - shows position of Lake Murray in Columbia area
  

Lake Marion, Lake Moultrie – Santee Cooper Project – 1939

• Berkeley, Orangeburg counties
• History of Santee Cooper - sanitized historical account by Santee Cooper - includes information on the Santee Canal - ignores all that was lost
  
• Thomas T. Waterman Report - 1939 report made by the Historic American Buildings Survey and the SC State Authority to determine the architectural value of the buildings to be demolished and to create a brief written and photographic record of them
  
• Plantations of St John's Parish Berkeley - late-1940 descriptions of a score of plantations destroyed by the construction of Lakes Marion and Moultrie - includes photographs
  
• Churches and Chapels of Charles Town District - historical information, photographs, and burial lists for 11 old Berkeley County churches and chapels and their cemeteries
  
• Cemeteries of St John's Parish Berkeley - burial lists and some photographs for the Old Berkeley County Churches and Chapels Cemeteries - see links at left
  
• Building Santee Cooper: Photographs from the Scrapbook of Harry T. Poe, Jr. - Senior Engineer for Santee-Cooper Navigation and Hydro-Electric Project
  –  Scrapbook - photos c. 1939 - click to zoom
  
• Historical documents - contemporary articles on the coming of the Santee Cooper dam - various authors - plus photos, legends, and info on Battle of Eutaw Springs
  
• Map of Lake Marion, Lake Moultrie, and surrounding communities
  
• Map of Mexico, Peru, and Ophir plantations
• Learn more about Lake Marion
• Learn more about Lake Moultrie

J Strom Thurmond Lake – 1946-1954

• Abbeville, McCormick counties
• US Army Corps of Engineers' history of the lake
  –  Pictorial timeline - click on images to enlarge
  
• More history of J Strom Thurmond Lake - also called Clarks Hill Lake
  
• Lost town of New Bordeaux

Savannah River Site – 1950

• Allendale, Aiken, and Barnwell counties - 1950
• "I Don't Live There Anymore ... The Ellenton Story" - a musical remembrance of Ellenton and its people - Web site includes historical information and past and present photographs
  
• Savannah River Archaeological Research Program - University of South Carolina
  – Ellenton people and places - photographs
  – Ellenton landmarks - aerial photograph of town with corresponding thumbnails
  – Jean Shaw's store and poolroom - oral histories, photographs
  – Leigh Banana Case Company - history, photographs
  – Long Store - Cassels Company - oral histories, photographs
  – Meyers Mill - town history, photographs
  – The Robert E. Lee and Swamp Landing - oral history, photographs
  – Sid O'Berry's Movie Theater - biographical overview, photographs
  
• Map - shows location of Savannah River Site within Aiken, Allendale, and Barnwell counties