News: Divers Find Hotel 300 Ft. Deep In Lake Jocassee
Divers have discovered an intact hotel buried 300 ft. deep in, a manmade water body in upstate South Carolina. The hotel was part of a neighborhood washed away by the water nearly four decades ago.
The area now known as Lake Jocassee used to be a community called Jocassee Valley. In 1973, a dam being built by the Duke Power Community replaced the neighborhood with 300 ft. of water. The dam’s purpose was to stop the flow of four rivers in the area, but the side effect was the loss of the Jocassee Valley.One building, however, survived: a hotel called the Attakulla Lodge. The hotel’s owner fought the Lake Jocassee development and was able to keep the Duke Power Company from demolishing his structure. It was the only structure still intact when the water poured in back in 1973. Now, all these years later, divers have located the hotel 300 ft. deep in the lake–and the woman who grew up as a child there has been able to finally revisit her memories.
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