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Lake Lure was made famous by the movie "Dirty Dancing," as several iconic scenes were filmed there. Lake Lure is in Rutherford County about two hours west of Charlotte, North Carolina.
The area at risk from the Lake Lure dam failure is highlighted on this map from Google Earth. Residents in the surrounding neighborhoods were ordered to evacuate Friday morning.
An extensive post-storm cleanup effort at Lake Lure in western North Carolina has uncovered remarkable pieces of local history that had long been hidden beneath the surface of the man-made lake.