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 ...

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.

Most plants and animals not specifically adapted to live in ... But many are under pressure from land development. The Great Dismal Swamp spanning the Virginia-North Carolina border, for example, is ...

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 ...

Among its many attractions are American black bears: There are as many as 350 living on the other side of the canal, in the 175-square-mile Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, one of the ...

MIDDLESEX COUNTY – More of the land within the Dismal Swamp area will be preserved as Open Space after the latest Middlesex County purchase. On March 17, the Middlesex County Board of Chosen ...