Oscarville: the story behind the city underneath Lake Lanier

Oscarville: the story behind the city underneath Lake Lanier



Lake Lanier is a Georgia landmark, but before it became part of the state’s landscape there was the town of Oscarville.

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24 thoughts on “Oscarville: the story behind the city underneath Lake Lanier

  1. Until that lake is drain and Oscarville is rebuilt you won't stand a chance at that lake and I'm not saying sorry because what they did to our people THEY WILL FOREVER PAY‼️

  2. Oscarville, it's being revealed,now.hiden history of black 🐈‍⬛🖤 people, it's important not to ever forget.the struggles that black Americans have gone through,and still fighting obstacles of America,and wineing about deportation,and separating families.thats bs,there are so many horrible things black 🐈‍⬛🖤 people have , and still fighting against here today.,and times.i dare this say that was long time ago,and to forget about all these actions,we as black people will never ever forget,and fight for justice continue,the civil rights movement continues.the revolution live on baby 💯!!amen black and am proud 🦚 let's get it back this country paying for others but still haven't taken accounts of all the horrible things to us people, there's no more hiding true and facts about our history, and reperrations ❤that owed to us as ,the Jews, Japanese,now the mexican.lets not for get,the struggle continues!!!

  3. Payback is a Mutha *****!. Funny how WYT Christians believe that they are going to be Raptured up to meet Jesus Christ who's Hebrew name is YAHUSHUA HAMACHIAC in the air!. YAHUAH hasn't forgotten what some of you or your ancestors did to the Native American Indians and the black people who were here long before the colonizers were led here by YAHUAH.

  4. Y'all still in trouble for this stuff so stop calling me mental unstable. Also your sick in the head talking about you going to make some body a slave who? Because your about to go to prison racist clown. Now stop stalking me and you people are the mental unstable ones lying about everything and paying people off so you can do whatever you want but you know who watching you the most high God so nothing is hidden from the most high God eyes.

  5. Every time our ancestors made any kind of progress, those demonic spawns is Satan made up lies and conjoured up some wickedness to destroy it. They’re a pathetic, miserable group of people and still are. That’s okay though, because the Most high says vengeance is his.

  6. She corrected herself and said children I tell ppl kids are goats puppies are dogs cubs are bears kittens are cats I have children dm me for merchandise teaching what they won't teach don't want you to know BASE

  7. Another Racially Motivated, Hostile Takeover Of A Black Community In 1912, Before Black Wall Street In 1921 And Rosewood Florida In 1923.

    Funny How Each Story Begins With A Lie About A White Woman And Ends With Black People Land Being Stolen And Black Communities Being Destroyed.

    However, The Story Of Oscarville Is Still Not Over.

    Yours Truly,
    King El Rey©🤴🏾
    Founder And Trustee Indigenous Water 💦 Bank Co-operative
    A Man Of Purpose

  8. Not just Oscarville, but all of Forsyth County. Even into the 1980’s it was known as a “sundown” county. All the family property abandoned and left to claim by those that chased them away. 😡

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