#1 – Over 150 million people visit Lake Murray each year.
#2 – There are no hotels on the lake! If you want to visit and stay on the lake, a home vacation rental is the way to go.
#3 – Lake Murray is home to the Purple Martin Phenomenon.
#4 – Each of the Lake Murray towers is 223 feet tall.
#5 – The biggest fish ever caught on the lake was a sturgeon that was 298 lbs and 9 ft tall!
#6 – 125,000 people view the 4th of July fireworks on Lake Murray, which can be seen from 4 different counties – Richland, Lexington, Newberry & Saluda.
#7 – There’s a graveyard on the bottom of the lake with 2300+ graves from the 1800’s.
#8 – The 5 towers along the Lake Murray dam use water from the lake to control the hydroelectric plant.
#9 – 6 schools and 3 churches had to be moved prior to the lake being filled.
#10 – A B-25 Mitchell plane crashed into the lake in WWII and wasn’t recovered for several decades.
Interested in learning more about the lost towns of Lake Murray? Watch this!
