Lost Towns under Jordan

[Homebrewale]

I was driving over Jordan Lake on Farrington Rd yesterday. Near the Farrington Point boat ramp, cars were lining Farrington Road. Out on the banks of the lake, there were dozens of people walking the shoreline. I wondered why so many people were out that day. I see today that a week ago, WRAL had a story on the lost homes around the lake and how they are exposed right now due to low water levels. Nobody wearing orange.

https://www.wral.com/story/revealed...ater-ghost-town-beneath-jordan-lake/21145751/

 

[woodmoose]

Nobody wearing orange.

why should they? Were they hunting?

 

[mudflap]

I was driving over Jordan Lake on Farrington Rd yesterday. Near the Farrington Point boat ramp, cars were lining Farrington Road. Out on the banks of the lake, there were dozens of people walking the shoreline. I wondered why so many people were out that day. I see today that a week ago, WRAL had a story on the lost homes around the lake and how they are exposed right now due to low water levels. Nobody wearing orange.

https://www.wral.com/story/revealed...ater-ghost-town-beneath-jordan-lake/21145751/

Covid going around again, where they wearing mask!

 

[HotSoup]

Covid going around again, where they wearing mask!

Still the easiest way to spot a democrat

 

[HotSoup]

I'd like to hit that with a metal detector, any coins besides pennies are bound to be silver

 

[bwfarms]

New Hope River Valley

Jordan Lake sank to unusually low levels – likely due to the recent drought.

ruins that historians believe to be Seaforth were visible along the same beach where the community once sank beneath the waves

and the roadway revealed beneath the lake this weekend likely part of the original Highway 64

Such fascinating journalism full of speculative words. Doesn’t take a genius to find the facts, it was a creek by the way. You’d think by reading the writer’s words this happened centuries ago

 

[Mack in N.C.]

there was a masonic lodge that had to be relocated as well. foundations are under the water but none were left standing prior to lake fillup. all that could be removed were removed.

 

[oldest school]

There are a bunch of roads under jordan lake it's pretty easy to find old 64 since its just north of the current 64.
Read the last part of the article for the bias.
Sad thing is Chatham county's lack of use of Jordan except whine to the feds about the lost taxes from the land taken.
But that's just the way it turned out.
I still have the tee shirt of a horse pulling a skier with the title: Ski Jordan lake and Never Drown."
The lake was delayed flooding while pea ridge road connector was built. Wilsonville store owners were antsy for the lake to be flooded so they could rake in the dough.

 

[Mack in N.C.]

There are a bunch of roads under jordan lake it's pretty easy to find old 64 since its just north of the current 64.
Read the last part of the article for the bias.
Sad thing is Chatham county's lack of use of Jordan except whine to the feds about the lost taxes from the land taken.
But that's just the way it turned out.
I still have the tee shirt of a horse pulling a skier with the title: Ski Jordan lake and Never Drown."
The lake was delayed flooding while pea ridge road connector was built. Wilsonville store owners were antsy for the lake to be flooded so they could rake in the dough.

they also found some indian artifacts which delayed it some.

 

[DuckyDave]

Around 10 or 12 years ago during that big drought son and I mountain biked quite a way around Jordan. I think we found about 6 boat anchors that day! Could hardly carry them all on our bikes!

 

[UpATree]

In 1981, I was living with a friend near Farrington. One of those March days when it was warm during the day, I took my bicycle and rode around on the bottom of the soon-to-be flooded lake. I got turned around and lost--the trees had been cut a few years before but briars and other things had grown taller than my head. It got cold and dark, and I was wearing shorts and I was getting cold. I saw a campfire not far away so I pushed my bicycle through the brambles, getting terribly scratched up and bleeding. When I got closer, I could see about six men and women around the fire but they were on the other side of the river. I called over to them and they told me if I could get across, they would take me home.

I left my bike in the briars and swam that freezing river at night over to them. They let me dry off by the fire and get warm with some Jack Daniels, then drove me home, just a mile or two up the road. The next day I came back and retrieved my bicycle. A couple of months later, I entered the Navy and the lake filled shortly after that. I never pass by that spot that I don't recall that experience.

 

[witler]

We were at Farrington boat ramp yesterday, crowded. I was trying to place where the store and baseball field were located.
Wilsonville store T shirt, I think I still have mine.

 

[Homebrewale]

The guy who owns the Anderson Creek Hunting Preserve is still bitter about the government "taking" his land for Jordan Lake. He said he has not gone back to the area since being forced out.

 

[ScottyB]

We lived in a house on Beaver Creek road that was relocated from the lake bed .

 

[wilykyote]

Nobody wearing orange

How were you able to see them then?

 

[302cj]

Around 10 or 12 years ago during that big drought son and I mountain biked quite a way around Jordan. I think we found about 6 boat anchors that day! Could hardly carry them all on our bikes!

I have pictures from 2002 I believe. Ebenezer and Poes ridge closest water was 100 yards from them.

 

[CutNRun]

I cut firewood with some neighbors in the lake basin before it filled up. Duck hunted the swamp by the dairy farm where Ebeneezer beach is now. New Hope Creek made a sharp hairpin turn with swampy area in the middle right there. Wood Ducks used to pile in that hole. Grim Reaper's father and I rented a place just south of 64 & 1008 when Jordan filled up. Back before there were state parks & campgrounds everywhere and you could hunt just about anywhere out there.

Jim

 

[NCST8GUY]

In 1981, I was living with a friend near Farrington. One of those March days when it was warm during the day, I took my bicycle and rode around on the bottom of the soon-to-be flooded lake. I got turned around and lost--the trees had been cut a few years before but briars and other things had grown taller than my head. It got cold and dark, and I was wearing shorts and I was getting cold. I saw a campfire not far away so I pushed my bicycle through the brambles, getting terribly scratched up and bleeding. When I got closer, I could see about six men and women around the fire but they were on the other side of the river. I called over to them and they told me if I could get across, they would take me home.

I left my bike in the briars and swam that freezing river at night over to them. They let me dry off by the fire and get warm with some Jack Daniels, then drove me home, just a mile or two up the road. The next day I came back and retrieved my bicycle. A couple of months later, I entered the Navy and the lake filled shortly after that. I never pass by that spot that I don't recall that experience.

I love stories like these on this forum. They would never make it into the world without this exact forum.

 

[bigten]

I love stories like these on this forum. They would never make it into the world without this exact forum.

I think you've found yourself in situations to the point you'd appreciate someone else's...

 

[DRS]

Walked the lake bed often after most of the trees were cut.