Betty, Years ago I asked the Corp of Engineers to give me a list of cemeteries covered by Clark Hill for the Hart County Library and they finally complied in 1988, they are not on microfilm but on paper. Since I grew up in the Lincoln/Wilkes County area I was told by relatives that some of the graves from the area around Petersburg were moved to Bethel Church in Elbert County and some to Friendship Baptist Church in Wilkes County when the waters of Clark Hill were "backed up", I don't know if this is correct or not. Frances in SC -----Original Message----- From: galincol-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:galincol-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Betty Bivins Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 9:41 PM To: galincol@rootsweb.com Subject: [GALINCOL] dams on the savannah river and the graves it covered Barbara, You are partially correct. They built a plant called Vogtle Nuclear Power Plant in Burke Co near Waynesboro GA below Lincoln Co and Augusta. I know nothing about a dam there. You can google it and find out some interesting information. They are currently digging out to put in a new part. There are several dams across the Savannah River. The Richard B Russell(long-term senator from GA) Dam is close to Elberton GA which is north of Lincoln Co. There is one at Clark Hill. When they built those dams, it is my understanding that the Corps of Engineers were to map every cemetery and log the ones that were potentially to be covered with water. I never heard of anything about moving any. No one would have had that much money. They only got so far and the water backed up faster than it was predicted. All of that history is lost to us forever. There was a lot of rain that year. At least that was their EXCUSE! Don't ask me which year, I can't remember. The cemeteries that they did log are supposed to be housed in the public library at Hartwell, GA (I do not know if printed or microfilm). When we went there several years ago to search them, they were renovating the library and we were unable to do our searching. I still have plans to go back there again. It is NOT a complete list. If their log has been published I am unaware of it. I am surprised that Ancestry has not done one. The only graves they moved, of which I am aware, are the graves of Elijah Clark and his family, the Revolutionary War hero. They moved them to Elijah Clark state park located on the Savannah River in Lincoln Co. GA across from McCormick, SC. (John Dooly, the Revolution hero who was murdered in his cabin by the Tories is here also but we have never walked up to that site.) They have a great state park there. There is a reproduction of Elijah Clark's cabin that is probably the best reproduction of a cabin that we have ever seen. They know so much about it from letters and papers of him and his wife that were kept. They measured the length from one chimney ruin to the other on his farm, now under water, and built it from that. They just did a good estimate on how large to build the kitchen that is not attached to the house. The cabin is manned by volunteer docents and is only open on weekends. If you enjoy Revolutionary War research you would enjoy studying the revolution in this area of GA and SC. It was actually more like a local area civil war and very brutal. One of the dams created the J. Strom Thurmond(long time senator from SC) Reservoir. There is much water in this area for recreational purposes. There are a number of state parks with boat ramps and some of them have cabins to rent. And now that you have had your Georgia history lesson, I am going back to my email. I do not know how much publicity was given to the public about them backing up that much water. We were not living here at the time. I do not live close to Lincoln Co. I feel sure most of my kin from Lincoln Co are blowing bubbles as I type. If I had been I would probably been one of those hippies who stood in front of the digging equipment and been hauled off to jail. I find most people in this country have absolutely NO respect for nor see the importance of old grave yards. Betty in ga -----Original Message----- From: galincol-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:galincol-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nononoall3@aol.com Sent: Monday, April 05, 2010 7:56 PM To: galincol@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GALINCOL] agriculture question Hello, I am not Betty but Barbara. Years ago, perhaps 30 years, I was in a library doing research on my Lincoln County ancestors. I found a few books there that told of how there was going to be a nuclear plant or something to that effect on the river near Augusta or maybe higher up near Lincoln County. They stated that whole cemeteries had to be relocated prior to a flooding of the area that was going to occur in connection with that plant going in. It is a very foggy memory but it gave me rise to expect that because I could not find the graves of my people, they may have been in the move. You might find it in a local library of either Lincoln or Wilkes Counties in Georgia and possibly McCormick County in S. Carolina. Barbara in Texas If this is a Message Board gatewayed to the list, please reply to the Message Board. The poster may not be a member of this list. Please remember that this is a FREE genealogy mailing list and postings of any commercial nature are NOT permitted by RootsWeb Rules. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GALINCOL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message If this is a Message Board gatewayed to the list, please reply to the Message Board. 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