3,494 feet up. The highest lake east of the Mississippi when it was built.
Lake Glenville sits at 3,494 feet above sea level on the west fork of the Tuckasegee River, the highest lake east of the Mississippi when it was dammed in 1941 to power wartime aluminum production — 26 miles of shoreline eight miles north of Cashiers.
Lake Glenville was built in 1941 by Nantahala Power and Light, then ALCOA-owned, damming the west fork of the Tuckasegee River to feed wartime aluminum production — the flooding submerged the entire valley north of Cashiers, including the original town of Glenville, to a depth of 300 feet. Signal Ridge Marina, the only marina right on the water, runs pontoon rentals and waterfall cruises to falls reachable only by boat. Cashiers, eight miles south on Highway 107, holds the restaurant cluster — Slab Town Pizza and Cashiers Valley Smokehouse — and the area's grocery store. The lake reads as high-country and country-club, closer to Cashiers' upscale identity than a typical Southeast reservoir.
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