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Glen Hay in the Big Choga section of the Nantahala community is the last remaining land once owned there by Thomas R. Hay, Sr., his wife Ardith Bastow Hay, and his parents Neil C. Hay and Levada Howard Hay.  The Howard family purchased part of the land from the State of North Carolina in 1871 following the infamous "Trail of Tears" which relocated the Cherokee Indians to Oklahoma.   The remainder of the land was acquired through a combination of hard work and good luck over 60 years.  In addition to Glen Hay, both the Little Choga's Place and Nantahala Shores subdivisions on Nantahala Lake were formerly Hay property.

Nantahala Lake in Winter

In the 1940s in a sequel to the forced removal of the Cherokee, Nantahala Power and Light Company (NP&L), then a subsidiary of the Aluminum Company of America (Alcoa), relocated the men, women, and children whose homes were near the waters of Big Choga Creek, Little Choga Creek, and Nantahala River to make way for Nantahala Lake.   NP&L purchased the property which was to be flooded by the construction of Nantahala Lake from those willing to sell it at the offered price.  Notwithstanding that it was wholly owned by Alcoa, NP&L was chartered as a "public service company" with the power to condemn land "for the public good". Consequently, the land  belonging to uncooperative property owners was acquired by condemnation.  

In one of the few cases requiring condemnation, the Hay family refused to sell their land at the offered price.  The final judgment from the NP&L lawsuit against the Hays left the ownership of the land in the Hay family while granting a perpetual waterflow/flooding easement to the power company.  The Hays retained ownership of all of the condemned land, from ten feet above the highwater mark  (the famous 2900 foot Contour NP&L Datum) across the full width of the lake. Altogether, the condemned land includes over 140 acres now under water, and it involves a shoreline extent of over two miles.
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In 1957 the public lake access area adjacent to Glen Hay Marina was deeded to the State of North Carolina as a gift from the Hay family so that all could have free access to and enjoy Nantahala Lake.  We still own the land under the lake and up to the 2900 contour over a shoreline extent of about 9000 feet.  We note out of general interest that the "2900 contour "is actually an elevation of about 3022 feet, and the high water mark of the lake - the 2890 contour - is actually about 3012 feet. 

 Ardith Hay Beadles and Robert L. Beadles became the sole owners of the Glen Hay Subdivision in 2000.  Ownership was then transferred to Glen Hay, Inc, and we remain its only shareholders.  The corporate goal is to create a quality community that residents will enjoy and that Hay family members - now gone - would look upon with pride and satisfaction. 
                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Disclaimer: As long as Glen Hay Inc is the majority owner in the Glen Hay Subdivision, Glen Hay Inc reserves the right to make changes in Glen Hay that it deems are in the best interest of the development and when such changes do not violate the covenants and restrictions , as filed and amended, which by law set the rules for the development. 

We try hard to keep our site up to date for the benefit of our customers and our future neighbors. We specifically reserve the right to change prices without notice.

 

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