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Dismal Swamp
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Dismal Swamp, SE Va. and NE N.C. With dense forests and tangled undergrowth, it is a favorite site for sportsmen and naturalists. It once may have covered nearly 2,200 sq mi (5,700 sq km) but has been reduced by drainage to less than 600 sq mi (1,550 sq km). The swamp bottom is composed of organic material deposited by fallen trees and other vegetation. Its forests still contain valuable timber, despite the lumbering and fires that have plagued the area. Dismal Swamp was surveyed in 1763 by George Washington, who was a member of a company organized to drain it. A canal 22 mi (36 km) long, which is part of the Intracoastal Waterway Intracoastal Waterway, c.3,000 mi (4,827 km) long, partly natural, partly artificial, providing sheltered passage for commercial and leisure boats along the U.S. Atlantic coast from Boston, Mass. to Key West, S Fla.
..... Click the link for more information. , was completed in 1828 and connects Chesapeake Bay with Albemarle Sound. Lake Drummond, c.3 mi (4.8 km) in diameter, in the center of the swamp, is its highest elevation. The swamp is the scene of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811–96, American novelist and humanitarian, b. Litchfield, Conn. With her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, she stirred the conscience of Americans concerning slavery and thereby influenced the course of American history.
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Dismal Swamp

 or Great Dismal Swamp

Wetland region, southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina, U.S. Despite much lumbering and widespread destruction by fire, the area is still heavily wooded. About 30 mi (48 km) long and 10 mi (16 km) wide, it is home to many rare birds and numerous poisonous snakes. Noted for its fishing and hunting, it is traversed by the Dismal Swamp Canal, part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway.
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The community is a mix of urban areas, forests and wetlands, including a substantial portion of the Great Dismal Swamp.
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It meanders more than 300 miles from the marshes of Calabash on the South Carolina line, crossing sounds and bays, snaking up and down creeks and rivers and through ditchlike channels such as the Alligator-Pungo River Canal in Hyde County before exiting the dark, forest-lined Great Dismal Swamp Canal and parallel Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal bordering Virginia's Hampton Roads region.
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The state's tally of scorched acres does not include fires on federal land in Virginia, such as the summer blaze in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
Wildfires in Virginia set 45-year Record by Rex Bowman / Richmond Times-Dispatch
 
 
 
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