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Dismal Swamp State Park is a North Carolina state park in Camden County, North Carolina, in the United States. The park was created as a state natural area in 1974 with the help of The Nature Conservancy, and on July 28, 2007, the North Carolina General Assembly re-designated it as a state park. [4] It opened to the public in 2008. [5]
The refuge was officially established through the Dismal Swamp Act of 1974, and consists of over 167 square miles (433 square km) [1] of forested wetlands. Outside the boundaries of the refuge, the state of North Carolina has preserved and protected additional portions of the swamp through the establishment of the Dismal Swamp State Park.
Dismal Swamp State Park: Coastal Plain Camden [2] 14,432 acres (58.40 km 2) [5] 1974 [2] Open Under development; The park protects large part of the Great Dismal Swamp, and it is adjacent to Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. It is bounded on the east by the Dismal Swamp Canal. Elk Knob State Park: Mountains Watauga, Ashe [2]
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.
An additional $2 million earmarked in the state’s biennial budget could mean Chesapeake’s Historic Village project at Dismal Swamp can be completed earlier than anticipated. The City Council ...
The refuge includes almost 107,000 acres (43,000 ha) of forest wetlands. North Carolina established a state park to protect another portion of the swamp. Dismal Swamp State Park protects 22 square miles (57 km 2) of forested wetland. [2]
Map of the Dismal Swamp Canal, drawn by civil engineer D. S. Walton, 1867 Deep Creek Lock, located in Deep Creek, Virginia, separates the salt water of Deep Creek from the fresh water of Dismal Swamp Canal. In the Colonial period, water transportation was the lifeblood of the North Carolina sounds region and the Tidewater areas of Virginia. The ...
The title character is a maroon of the Great Dismal Swamp who preaches against slavery and incites slaves to escape. [11] [16] [33] In 2022, Amina Luqman-Dawson published a young adult novel called Freewater, set in the Great Dismal Swamp. [34] In 2023, the historical fiction novel won the Newbery Medal as well as the Coretta Scott King Award. [35]