Fred Wurster’s favorite time to walk through the Great Dismal Swamp is at dusk. Pushing through thick vegetation and swatting away mosquitoes, he gets to a section of this 113,000-acre national ...
In the marshy Coastal Plain of Northeast North Carolina and sprawling into Southeast Virginia, there's a massive tract of swampy land spanning almost 113,000 acres. Swathed in fog, spackled in Spanish ...
The Great Dismal Swamp, as the name given to it by mosquito-swatting British colonists implies, isn’t always hospitable to humans. Although it’s now part of a popular national wildlife refuge and ...
On July 27, 1850, more than a decade before the Civil War, nine congregants from nearby Northwest Baptist Church established Lake Drummond Baptist Church. Three miles from the Dismal Swamp Canal, the ...
PORTLAND, OR, UNITED STATES, August 18, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In 1791, an escaped slave, raised and living as white, is discovered and forced to flee into the ...