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Black bear within the Great Dismal Swamp. The Great Dismal Swamp lies wholly within the Middle Atlantic coastal forests ecoregion. [23] The swamp harbors a wide range of plant and animal species. Bald cypress, tupelo, maple, Atlantic white cypress, pine, and other tree species found on the refuge support the fauna within.
Washington Ditch in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in 2016. The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was created in 1974 to help protect and preserve a portion of the Great Dismal Swamp, a marshy region on the Coastal Plain of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina between Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina in the United States.
The dismal swamp southeastern shrew (S. l. fisheri), in southeastern Virginia and eastern North Carolina, including the Great Dismal Swamp. [4] [5] S. l. eionis, in northern Florida [4] S. l. longirostris, occurs in the rest of the range, including Maryland, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Missouri, Indiana, southern Ohio, and central Illinois. [4]
The mainland marsh rabbit (S. p. palustris) ranges from the Dismal Swamp, Virginia, along the eastern coast to northern sections of Florida and through the Gulf Coast into Mobile Bay, Alabama. [5] It occupies coastal lowland areas, swamps, and rivers and is rarely found more than forty miles from the coast. [1]
Osman, a escaped slave in the North Carolina part of the Great Dismal Swamp, 1856. Date: 1856: Source: Slavery in America, originally published in Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 1856: Author: David Hunter Strother: Permission (Reusing this file)
Curiously, both are lakes essentially on top of hills. Drummond is the highest point in the Dismal Swamp, with nine small ditches flowing out of it. The precise time of the Great Dismal Swamp's discovery and settlement is not known, but archaeological evidence indicates human occupation began nearly 13,000 years ago.
CHESAPEAKE — Police are investigating after a body was found at the Dismal Swamp Canal Trail on Sunday afternoon. Around 12:45 p.m., police were called to 1200 George Washington Highway South ...
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