Ballentine, SC Homes for Sale on or near Lake Murray

Ballentine is located on 

Lake Murray, a large reservoir formed in the 1930s by the Dreher Shoals Dam. Ballentine is also known as "The Gateway To Lake Murray". The peaceful community grew largely in the late 20th century, due to the combination of its lakefront location and its convenient location to the city of Columbia, SC, and about 10 minutes from Irmo's convenient shopping at the Columbiana Mall at Harbison Blvd. Many more shopping areas are located on or off Harbison Blvd. Fine Dining, Small family restaurants are also not far.

One of the more luxurious living areas is located on Blackburn Road. Homes on Blackburn Road in Ballentine, SC are considered by many a resort paradise!

In the twenty-first century, 

Ballentine has been transformed by the addition of two large, new, middle-class subdivisions and by some new commercial development as well as a new elementary school. It is now an affluent suburb of Columbia although it maintains something of a rural feel in many areas.

Ballentine's AWARD winning Schools

School District 5 of Lexington and Richland Counties

Elementary | Middle School | High School

Lake Murray and its surrounding river offer miles of boating pleasure for all types of boaters. Whether you enjoy canoeing or kayaking in calm waters or rapids, navigating your sails through cutting winds or leisurely cruising in your boat, Lake Murray/ Saluda River Country is the place for you.

Lake Murray is often referred to as the; "Crown Jewel" of South Carolina. It is a man made 47,500 acre reservoir with approximately 540 miles of shoreline. The lake provides recreational opportunities for homeowners as well as thousands of visitors each year. The lake is home to an estimated 20,000 lake front and lake access residents.

A little bit of history and info about our beautiful Lake Murray:

Lake Murray is named after William Murray, the engineer who, with his partner T. C. Williams, conceived and persevered until "the world's largest earthen dam" at that time was finished. Their vision of harnessing hydroelectric power here and at the Santee Cooper project brought abundant electricity to the middle part of South Carolina. Work on the dam across the Saluda River was started on September 21, 1927 and was finished on June 30, 1930. During construction of the dam, a Movietone news crew filmed the construction, and the newsreel footage has been preserved at the University of South Carolina.The Saluda river begins near the North Carolina border. As it runs to the sea, it fills Greenville Water reservoir, Greenwood Lake, and then Lake Murray. Past the dam, the Saluda joins the Congaree and Wateree rivers to flow to the Atlantic Ocean.The dam itself was built over 200 feet tall. It runs a distance of a mile and a half across. The ground level of the dam is over a quarter of a mile thick. The lake that it forms is forty-one miles long and, in places, over fourteen miles wide. State Highway 6 runs along the top of the dam, giving a panoramic view of the water on one side and the layout of the SCE&G Power Plant below.

The lake has almost 600 miles of shoreline, and forms an impoundment of over 50,000 acres. To make the building of the lake possible, more than 1000 tracts of land were acquired, and 5,000 people's homes were relocated. In its conception, it gave jobs and cheap electricity to the people of the Midlands of south Carolina, and in its enduring, gives them lasting beauty and enjoyment.

Out into the lake but not far from the city, Dreher Island State Recreation Area is a great place to get away from it all. 

Only about 30 miles from downtown Columbia on the shores of big Lake Murray – one of the best-known largemouth and striped bass fishing destinations in the South – the park consists of three islands linked to shore by a causeway and two bridges. In addition to woodsy hiking trails and lots of places to fish from shore, Dreher Island offers picnicking, camping and lakeside villas. A tackle shop and boat ramp also is available. The park has long been popular with recreational boaters and fishermen, and has been a launching spot for major national bass tournaments

 

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