Friends of Broadway Lake Celebrate Community Fun Day

Greg Wilson/Anderson Observer

Friends of Broadway Lake’s annual family fun day was greeted with good crowds on Saturday with an even that featured a ski show by the Carolina Ski team, a car show, food trucks, kids’ games, and the always-popular cardboard boat races.

The fire department cardboard boat race was won down the stretch by the Homeland Park Fire Department, with Broadway Way Fire Department a close second and Flat Rock-Bowen Fire Department coming in third.

Broadway Lake, was built as a Works Progress Administration project in the 1930s to provide employment during a time of widespread economic hardship, putting people to work on public infrastructure projects. The lake was impounded by building a dam across Little Garvin Creek and has served multiple purposes as a recreation and community hub for generations.