Great dismal swamp

A private-public partnership is working to protect the enigmatic swamp that has captured Virginians’ imaginations for centuries.

Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge contains some of the most important wildlife habitat in the mid-Atlantic region. At near 113,000 acres, the refuge is the largest intact remnant of a vast swamp that once covered more than one million acres.

Petit Marronage Enslaved Africans and people of African descent regularly sought freedom in Virginia and elsewhere. Many self-emancipated from enslavers in individual or group action that aimed to create sustainable communities of resistance. When these freedom seekers claimed difficult-to-access terrain—forests, mountain valleys, riverine islets, hummocks in swamps—near slave societies, they engaged in a form of resistance to slavery known as marronage. Read more about: Petit Marronage in…

Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom. The Great Dismal Swamp was once a thriving refuge for runaways

1600s- Native Americans, black people, & unruly whites begin using the Great Dismal Swamp as a refuge from British settlements. By the 1800s, thousands of mostly African-American "maroons" will inhabit the high & dry parts of the swamp, known as mesic islands. Self-sufficiency, barter with the outside world, & raids on nearby plantations will keep the maroons housed, fed, & moderately comfortable. Numerous attacks against the planter class will be conceived in the swamp * carried out from…

Are you looking to visit the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia? This Great Dismal Swamp travel guide has you covered! Click for more!

Poem by Thomas Moore

Slave Hunt, Dismal Swamp, Virginia by Thomas Moran, 1862 The Great Dismal Swamp is a huge marshy area that stretches from the city of Norfolk in southeastern Virginia to Elizabeth City in northeast…

Located in the small town of Belzoni, the area spans thousands of acres and is home to some of the world’s largest and oldest cypress trees.

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp - Wikipedia

Great Dismal Swamp

Earth Unreal Official Forum | Swamp Cypress also known as Bald Cypress

This is the largest baldcypress in Lake Drummond, in the Great Dismal Swamp. Old, weathered, see-through and covered in spanish moss, this tree is...

Great dismal swamp flowering shrub

Here's some photos from our trip to Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge , near Suffolk, Va. If you're out that way, check out the Pl...

Looking to visit one of Virginia's most undiscovered natural gems? This guide details how to visit the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and why you should.

Great Dismal Swamp