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As the 2024 election approaches, here's what to know about ballot tracking, vote-by-mail deadlines, and finding your polling site in Virginia.
The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was created in 1973 when the Union Camp Corporation of Franklin, Virginia, donated 49,100 acres (19,900 ha) of land after centuries of logging and other human activities devastated the swamp's ecosystems.
Contiguous with Big Woods State Forest. Briery Creek: Prince Edward: 3,164 acres (12.80 km 2) Briery Creek Lake: Chester F. Phelps: Fauquier, Culpeper: 4,540 acres (18.4 km 2) Rappahannock River: Cavalier: Chesapeake: 4,485 acres (18.15 km 2) Comprises two separate tracts, one of which is contiguous with Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife ...
The folklore story "Phantom Lovers of Dismal Swamp" is based entirely around this area. "Wicked John and the Devil", a story in Grandfather Tales, a collection of folktales edited by Richard Chase, tells of a man whom even the devil feared, who when he died was given a red-hot coal by the devil, and told to go to the Great Dismal Swamp to make his own hell.
Saturday voting hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and weekdays the poll is open from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m. This article originally appeared on The Herald News: Here's what to know about city polling ...
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.
Once thought to be a “swing state” in the run-up to the 2024 presidential election, the results of a new poll indicate a likelihood that Virginia will remain in the blue column for the fifth ...
James River Wildlife Management Area is a 1,213-acre (4.91 km 2) Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Nelson County, Virginia, near the town of Wingina. It consists of hilly woodland and relatively level bottomland along slightly more than one mile (1.6 km) of the James River. Elevations at the area range from 350 to 500 feet (110 to 150 m) above ...