Once 2,000 square miles in Virginia and North Carolina, the swamp today is perhaps one-tenth that size. Allison Shelley The worse it gets, as I wade and stumble through the Great Dismal Swamp ...

The proposed Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area is in the middle of a three-year feasibility study process. That includes a public comment period, which is open now until May 19th.

The Great Dismal Swamp, as the name given to it by mosquito ... Elaine Luria in southeastern Virginia, and Rep. Greg Murphy and then-Rep. G.K. Butterfield from northeastern North Carolina.

“The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge features a vast, mysterious landscape,” Gifford wrote. “It’s home to Lake Drummond, one of two natural lakes in Virginia, as well as some ...

Video game creators dug into Southern Gothic and even the Great Dismal Swamp to craft plot and themes for South of Midnight.

In the 18th century a bleak area on the border of Virginia and North Carolina was named the Great Dismal Swamp. Large areas of land were drained for logging and to use the land for farming.

the Appalachian Mountains and the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina. The game’s audio designer, Chris Fox, said the team got rashes from poison sumac in the swamp while they were ...