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- The most famous legend from the Great Dismal Swamp comes from slightly north of the border in Virginia, where Lake Drummond stretches for five miles through...
- An 1807 sketch of the Great Dismal Swamp shows its location in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina.
- This site was the refuge location for the Great Dismal Swamp Maroons, who were comprised of African Americans escaping slavery and Native Americans...
- Vast and ancient, sprawling across the borders of Virginia and North Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp is one of the largest natural areas on the East Coast...
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Lake Drummond and the Great Dismal Swamp Canal detail, Map of the Dismal Swamp Canal 1867 (cropped).jpg 885 × 1,102; 233 KB.
- The Academi Training Site, south of Moyock, on former farmland reclaimed from the drained part of the Great Dismal Swamp, is a large and diverse training...
- The Great Dismal Swamp is one of the most unique and valuable ecological landscapes on the U.S. East Coast.
- Immortalized through Harriet Beecher Stowe’s second novel Dred: a Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, thousands of free and escaped slaves fled to the area to...
- He is a member of the Great Dismal Swamp maroons, a group of runaway slaves who lived in the swamp during the 18thcentury in order to escape persecution.