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Lake Lure is a town in Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States. In 2020 the town population was 1,634. Lake Lure was incorporated in 1927, and acquired the lake after which it is named in 1965.

In 1902, Dr. Lucius B. Morse and his brothers Hiram and Asahel purchased 64 acres (0.26 km) around Chimney Rock (within present-day Chimney Rock State Park) for $5,000. They future acquired enough estate in the Place to bring the sum to 8,000 acres (32 km²). Lucius Morse’s wife Elizabeth is attributed with naming the lake (and the town). Included in the area that became the lake, according to a blog entrйe by Russ Meade, was the town of Buffalo, believed to have been named for a available mountain that resembled a buffalo.

In 1925, the Morse intimates created Carolina Mountain Power Company and funded the construction of a dam upon the Broad River (through a mortgage) which produced the lake after which the town is named. The full impoundment of Lake Lure was completed in 1927. At secret water levels, Lake Lure covers approximately 720 acres (2.9 km) and has a shoreline of nearly 27 miles (43 km). The dam’s capacity plant began operations in 1928 considering the sale of electricity under a 10-year accord to Blue Ridge Power Co., a local predecessor of Duke Power. In forward looking times, the town continues to sell electricity to Duke Energy, although profits from the dam now come second to maintaining a utter water level year-round.