Tega Cay sits on a peninsula reaching into Lake Wylie, just over the South Carolina line and about 30 minutes south of Uptown Charlotte. It started in the 1970s as one of the lake's first master-planned communities, and…

Lake Wylie is a 13,400-acre reservoir on the Catawba River, and like the river itself, it doesn't care about the state line. Duke Power first dammed the Catawba here in 1904, then rebuilt and enlarged the dam in 1924 to…