Today, the Great Dismal Swamp is a National Wildlife Refuge stretching between Virginia and North Carolina. But from the late 1600s to the Civil War, indigenous peoples and slaves sought refuge ...

"Drain the swamp" may be a popular political slogan, but it doesn't always work so well in nature. In southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp National ...

Whether they realize it or not, the thousands who go hiking, biking or boating at Dismal Swamp State Park have passed near remnants of the Underground Railroad – and relics from the communities ...

Serome Hamlin explores the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge with Manager, Chris Lowie, to talk about the natural and human history of the swamp and learn how the unique ecosystem is ...

The Dismal Swamp, an unfortunately named 660-acre nature and wildlife preserve tucked inside a heavily populated part of Middlesex County, has been the butt of jokes for years. It’s a swamp?

He started in Camden County, N.C., where Grandy was enslaved from the time he was born, and before long, the clues led him to the Great Dismal Swamp — the place where Grandy worked to buy his ...

President Joe Biden on Friday began the process of designating the Great Dismal Swamp as a National Heritage Area in recognition of its history and connections with local Indigenous tribes and ...

The Smithsonian magazine recently published an article about the Great Dismal Swamp. I picked up the book that the article is based on, but the article does a better job of telling the story ...

Joining southeastern Virginia with northeastern North Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp is a stretch of forested wetland that, in hindsight, doesn’t really live up to the “dismal” part of its ...

Authorities used a bulldozer Saturday as they tried to reach the bodies of four people from Florida who died Friday in a small plane crash in a dense Virginia swamp, state police said. "The site ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) – The Norfolk District’s U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced that the Great Dismal Swamp Canal will be temporarily closed. Starting on Jan. 8 through March 31 ...

A trip up the Dismal Swamp Canal and a look at the art of fresco with artist Ben Long. Storyteller Bland Simpson takes a historical trip up the Intracoastal Waterway’s Dismal Swamp Canal ...