View from highway Calhoun Falls, SC. business district. Junction of Highway #81 - North to community of Lowndesville, SC. and city of Anderson, SC; South to the R.B. Russell Dam and communities of Mount Carmel, SC. and Willington, SC. Access to the Calhoun Falls State Park. Calhoun Falls State Recreation Area is located on Lake Russell, one of South Carolina's most popular fishing lakes. Bounded at one end by the port city of Charleston and at the other by the Blue Ridge Mountains, the South Carolina Heritage Corridor contains historic, cultural, and natural resources that tell the lively story of South Carolina's centuries long evolution and culture. Learn of rice and indigo, pirates and patriots, slaves and freemen, cotton fields and mill villages, swamps and waterfalls, railroads and back roads, spirituals and bluegrass.