Carters Lake is named for the Carter family that owned land in the area in the 1800s, well before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dammed the river for flood control and power generation in 1977. At ...

Here's a closer look at it and what the lake has to offer guests. What is the deepest lake in Georgia? Carters Lake is the deepest lake in Georgia, according to the Center for Land Use Interpretation.