Lake Jocassee below 300 feet of water. Mount Carmel Baptist Church Cemetery was a setting for a scene in the film "Deliverance" (1972), starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight, produced before the lake was flooded. The site is now covered by 130 feet of water in the lake. A confluence of four rivers supplies Lake Jocassee's water. The farthest west of the rivers, the Whitewater River, flows southeast until it meets the northwest corner of Lake Jocassee. The Thompson River flows due south until it too reaches the lake in the northwest corner. The Horsepasture River feeds the lake from the northeast
Jon Voight Mitt Romney and Donald Trump in the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections respectively. In the "Seinfeld" episode "The Mom & Pop Store," George Costanza buys a 1989 Chrysler LeBaron thinking it belonged previously to Jon Voight. However Jerry points out that Jon Voight must have misspelled his first name with an "h" in the owners manual for this to be true. Jon Voight appears briefly as himself in the episode and bites Kramer on the arm. By the end of the episode it appears that the car belonged to a periodontist by the name of John Voight. Jon Voight Jonathan