The whole East Coast is home to a number of wetlands; our own Great Dismal Swamp is one of the biggest wetlands of all, West said. The bald cypress is one of the Dismal Swamp’s signature trees.

Joining southeastern Virginia with northeastern North Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp is a stretch ... That includes the more common bald cypress to the rare Atlantic white cedar in terms of ...

At the extreme eastern reaches of Virginia and North Carolina, straddling the boundary separating those two states, lies the swamp named the Great Dismal. It includes approximately 1,000 square miles ...

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 ... of junipers and cypress where few ...

This North Carolina state park may be a 'dismal' swamp, but it has exhilarating outdoor activities, an incredible range of ...

Serome Hamlin explores the Great Dismal ... of bald Cyprus, more ferns, as a ground cover, the native Virginia switchcane as an understory vegetation. And so yeah, it's definitely more swamp ...

Today, you can visit that swamp. The Great Dismal Swamp was a stop on the Underground ... They were built using the plentiful Cypress and Cedar trees in the area. Sanford says a historian and ...

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 ...