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The Dismal Swamp Canal was authorized by Virginia in 1787 and by North Carolina in 1790. Construction began in 1793 and was completed in 1805. The canal, as well as a railroad constructed through part of the swamp in 1830, enabled the harvest of timber. [20] The canal deteriorated after the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal was
West Virginia Penitentiary in Moundsville, the scene of three deadly prison riots in 1973, 1979, and 1986, [148] is said to be haunted. [ 149 ] Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston is a previously abandoned psychiatric hospital that is purported to be haunted due to the many deaths of patients which occurred there.
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Virginia that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, other historic registers, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design. [1] [2] [3]
The outdoor experience has jump scares from actors and from animatronics.
Delayed two weeks by bad weather, the Coldwater Haunted Forest in Rotary Park drew nearly 2,000 people over the weekend.
Location of Chesapeake in Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Chesapeake, Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the independent city of Chesapeake, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...
South Norfolk Historic District is a national historic district located at Chesapeake, Virginia. The district encompasses 668 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in what started as a planned community of Norfolk County, Virginia and grew to become an independent city. South Norfolk was never part of Norfolk, Virginia.
Chippokes State Park (previously known as Chippokes Plantation State Park) is a Virginia state park on the south side of the James River on the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail. In addition to forests and fossil hunting on the beach, it includes three historic houses (plus outbuildings to each) as well as an open-air ...