The Great Dismal Swamp, as the name given to it by mosquito ... Elaine Luria in southeastern Virginia, and Rep. Greg Murphy and then-Rep. G.K. Butterfield from northeastern North Carolina.

The National Park Service say a National Heritage Area represents much more than the land it covers; it tells the story of a region and the people who lived in it. The proposed Great Dismal Swamp ...

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 ...

In the 18th century a bleak area on the border of Virginia and North Carolina was named the Great Dismal Swamp. Large areas of land were drained for logging and to use the land for farming.