the clues led him to the Great Dismal Swamp — the place where Grandy worked to buy his freedom. Straddling the North Carolina-Virginia border, the enormous, inhospitable morass was an ecosystem ...

There are hidden places in North Carolina where you can walk in the ... biking or boating at Dismal Swamp State Park have passed near remnants of the Underground Railroad – and relics from ...

"The Great Dismal Swamp has a very intriguing and what I would call a tremendous history." The swamp sits in Chesapeake, Suffolk and North Carolina. Its history dates back centuries including to ...

and other communities in the Great Dismal Swamp's approximately 200 square miles of densely wooded wetlands in southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina. It's the year 1800. You're a slave ...

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 ...

Humans first inhabited Dismal Swamp an estimated 13,000 years ago. It was home for the Nansemond Indians and subsequently ”discovered” by North Carolina governor William Drummond in 1665 while ...

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.

Among its many attractions are American black bears: There are as many as 350 living on the other side of the canal, in the 175-square-mile Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, one of the ...