Glenville, North Carolina

Glenville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Jackson County, North Carolina, United States.

It is now a popular lakeside vacation community with many second homes that sometimes are rented around Lake Glenville, which flooded and destroyed the original town.

The town managed to save its church and graveyard from the lake, and they were moved not far beyond the present shoreline; today they rest lakeside.

The original town was destroyed in 1941 by Nantahala Power and Light after it built a hydroelectric dam, forming Lake Glenville on the Tuckasegee River.

Lake Glenville is the highest reservoir east of the Mississippi,[citation needed] with a surface elevation of 3,492 feet (1,064 m).

The town made news in 2014 when Lucy Morgan, who had retired to Glenville, exposed a $49.6 million mortgage fraud/Ponzi scheme being run by developer Domenico Rabuffo while he was in the United States Federal Witness Protection Program.

Lake Glenville