Lake Murray (South Carolina)

Lake Murray Country is a large area of South Carolina, United States; the region includes the counties of Newberry, Saluda, Lexington, and Richland. The towns of Lexington and Irmo are usually considered to be part of it. The region's focal point is Lake Murray. Lake Murray's name comes from its chief engineer William S. Murray. The Saluda Dam supplies a large portion of the power to South Carolina. The dam was the largest earthen dam in cubical content for power purposes in the world at its time of creation.

Ballentine-Shealy House, also known as the Ballentine-Shealy-Slocum House, is a historic home located near Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built in the late-18th or early-19th century, and is a 1+1⁄2-story, rectangular log building. It is sheathed in weatherboard and has a standing seam metal gable roof. It has shed rooms on the rear and a one-story shed-roofed front porch with an enclosed room. The house has a hall-and-parlor plan and an enclosed stair. An open breezeway connects the house to the kitchen (ca. 1870), which has a fieldstone and brick chimney and a side porch. Also on the property a dilapidated dairy, a small log barn, and a well house.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

John Solomon Hendrix House, also known as the Sol Hendrix House, is a historic home located near Lexington, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1850, and is a two-story, rectangular, weatherboarded frame farmhouse. It has a gable roof and exterior end chimneys. The front façade features a double tiered porch supported by square wood posts.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Dreher Island State Park is in central South Carolina roughly 30 miles (48 km) from the state's capital of Columbia. It occupies all of the largest island in 50,000-acre (202 km2) Lake Murray, a reservoir of the Saluda River. The park offers boating, hiking, camping, fishing for largemouth bass and other fish, picnic areas and spaces for large group meetings. The park also contains several lodging options, including villas and cabins It was first leased from SCE&G (now SCANA) in 1970, who built the Dreher Shoals Dam, creating Lake Murray. Today it is a largely heavily wooded island with the only access being a bridge on its Northern side. The park is named after the former owner of island, Billy Dreher.

Lake Murray of Richland is a census-designated place (CDP) in Richland County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 8,110 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Columbia, South Carolina Metropolitan Statistical Area.

The Jacob Wingard Dreher House, also known as Glencoe Farm, is an historic home located near Irmo, Lexington County, South Carolina. It was built about 1830–50, and is a two-story, rectangular weatherboarded frame farmhouse. It has a gable roof and features a one-story, shed-roofed porch across the front façade. A single story wing, added about 1910, is connected to the left elevation by a porch. Also on the property is a one-story, frame, weatherboarded store building, which was moved to its present location about 1945.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

Lexington High School is a public high school in Lexington, South Carolina that provides education for ninth through twelfth grades, serving the communities of Lexington, Lake Murray, and West Lexington. The school's athletic mascot is the Wildcat. Lexington was the first high school and only school in South Carolina to be twice selected as the Carolina First Palmetto's Finest and the first to be named a Unified School. It is an International Baccalaureate World School.

White Rock is an unincorporated community in northwestern Richland County, South Carolina, United States, a few miles north of Lake Murray. It has a post office with the ZIP Code of 29177. The population of the ZCTA for ZIP Code 29177 was 463 at the outdated 2000 census. The Lowman Home retirement home was established in 1911. In the 21st century, the White Rock area has been transformed by the addition and expansion of several subdivisions (Foxport, Lakeport, Osprey, Cedar Cove, Edenbrook, Eagle's Rest (est. 2007), Lakeside at Ballentine (est. 2002), Richard Franklin Estates, Westcott Ridge (across from I-26)), Waterfall, Portrait Hill, Lake Murray Elementary, Chapin Middle School, and Spring Hill High School (a magnet high school)-home to Lake Murray Docks and the Center for Advanced Technical Studies, all in Lexington & Richland County School District Five.

SC Whitmore School in South Carolina is a virtual school that is authorized by the South Carolina Public Charter School District, an extension of the South Carolina Department of Education. Opened in August 2011, it offers free public school that high school students in grades 9-12 attend from home. The school operates year-round without semesters. Coursework is self-paced and based upon mastery learning. Students work with certified teachers in self-paced, asynchronous classes to revise their assignments until they have demonstrated mastery. The SC Whitmore School is accredited by the AdvancED Accreditation Commission.

Chapin, popularly known as the "Capital of Lake Murray", is a small lake town located at the northern tip of Lexington County, South Carolina, United States. Lake Murray separates Chapin from the rest of Lexington County. The population of Chapin was 1,445 according to the 2010 census, and an estimated 1,633 in 2019. Chapin is located approximately 24 miles (39 km) northwest of Columbia, and many people commute there for work; however, the town is considered fringe rural by the US postal service.The town government is set up in the mayor-council form, and the current mayor is Albert Koon. Chapin has four public schools in the area; the first Chapin school was built in 1924. Lake Murray is the main attraction to Chapin and provides boaters with water-related recreation.

Chapin High School is a public high school in Chapin, South Carolina. Nearly 1,400 students attend Chapin High School, as of the 2017–2018 school year. Chapin High School is one of four high schools in Lexington & Richland County School District Five.

The Robinson-Hiller House in Chapin, Lexington County, South Carolina, was built in 1902. It is significant as a Queen Anne house and for being associated with Charles Plumber Robinson (1867-1944), a businessman who founded C.P. Robinson Lumber Company and other enterprises, and his wife Sarah "Eddie" Smithson Robinson, a "social activist and officer of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union." In 1919, after the Robinsons left Chapin, the house was acquired by James Haltiwanger Hiller.It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It is currently a commercial spa.