Lake Murray is a gorgeous lake, and you are right, there are LOTS of beautiful and big homes there. I miss spending time there. We didn't live on the lake, but lived near there when I was living in Columbia. We went often and had friends with lake houses!

In fact, when they created Lake Murray, back in the 50's, my grandfather bought a lot that was surrounded by water on three sides and he built a little house out of rocks from the lake bed. It was a wonderful place to go and we spent many happy times there. But when he died, my grandmother didn't want to keep it and no one had enough money to buy it at that point from her, so it was sold for $25,000! I think that was in about 1968 or so. A lot like that, now, on the Lexington side of the lake would cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Too bad it couldn't stay in our family!

Logan