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 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 ...

The 11 Scouts of Troop 162 and their six adult Scout leaders were among nearly 400 people who paddled their way from the Dismal Swamp Canal State Park to the Virginia border, using kayaks ...

The Free Black Expulsion Law and Self-Enslavement in Virginia, 1806–1864 MA received: 2002 Thesis Title: Between Slavery and Freedom: African Americans in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1863 received ...