The Families Under Lake Norman

REV 7/1/16

[@livingfencelifestyle]

So where’s the actual story

[@abigailmills2603]

i understand that the water is very important for our energy in our area but i wish it made. i cant help but wonder what kind of historical sites are under that water. i wonder if any native artifacts are now ruined from the water. i wonder if any family heirlooms are under the water. i just wonder about the history under that lake every time i drive down 77 or over to concord on the davidson concord highway. i cannot believe they ruined all that history just for a sewage filled lake.

[@traceygladish7951]

My grandfather Robert Westmoreland's first farm is under Lake Norman. In my opinion, the worst thing to happen to that community.

[@gabesigmon7080]

Yes my great grandpa had a farm with over 500 acres covering from the landing restaurant too Marshall steam station and he passed and they gave my great grandma hell until they took it and they flooded most of the farm and still haven’t payed for some land they took we now have 34 acres of just fields from the old farm and my grandparents and my uncles and us all live on the land and my grandpa is still upset to this day on what they did

[@MrJuliovelazquez]

this is such an important story for the families that lived there. I would like to see the making of this enormous lake.

[@LoveLightSalsa]

This is very well made and provocative.

[@johnsigmon1220]

My grandpas dads farm was where the restraint the blue parrot is now but they had to leave corn and tractors all down there

[@charlesdouthit7316]

My Grandfather Ed Douthit lived up on a hill that is now a shoal marker in either Little’s Creek or Westport. He was baptized in the river about a mile south of 150 bridge before the lake backed up. After the lake backed up he fished those waters for bass with his son and eventually myself up until the month of his death. The waters of Lake Norman are very special to me for that reason.

[@tanerhoward6432]

My great great grandfather James Brotherton's farm is now under Lake Norman. His son lost part of his farm to the lake. If you ask me, I wish it was never built. It took away so much history, made people move in the area, created suburban sprawl, and a traffic nightmare.

[@JayJaySoLitGaming]

I was so shook when my mom and cousin told this to me

[@MoorBlack]

This was a predominantly Black town even though they act as if it wasn’t. This is also one of many

[@jandyallday]

Yeah I'd love to watch this, who has the link??

[@jessiepaulie1]

thx ..hope you post more videos.

[@paulrudolph6119]

Sure it is..it's just underwater 😂

[@hines862009]

My right ear is lonely.

[@milesthompson8132]

I live there

[@bentrodzfishing8883]

What are the 5 or 6 giant steel cylinders behind the dam for Ive always wondered that

[@Russellsagecline]

At McGuire? Water used for cooling the reactors.

[@bentrodzfishing8883]

@@Russellsagecline the ones that are submerged now, if you look at pictures while they were building cowans ford dam there are 5 or 6 steel cylinders right behind the dam

[@aligetts5361]

Think they are intakes and are behind most damns

[@popsoldboats3406]

​@@bentrodzfishing8883 that is the intake for the turbine wheels to make power

[@terryhoover4687]

Many of the families you portray as victims had been land poor and barely ekeing out a living from the land. They were delighted to be bought out for the first and biggest payment of cash their families had seen for decades.

[@alphabass3270]

Lake Norman is not the largest but ok

[@IngridRollema]

What are you talking about? It _is_ the largest man-made body of freshwater in North Carolina.

[@abigailmills2603]

in the state yeah it is but not in the world lmfao

[@paulrudolph6119]

I've seen what the original residents do to the river and it's disgusting. So much trash on the river side now south of Norman. Glad some folks with class moved into the area and cleaned it up.