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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 Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was officially established by the U.S. Congress through the Dismal Swamp Act of 1974. The refuge consists of almost 107,000 acres (430 km 2 ) of forested wetlands , [ 22 ] including the 3,100-acre (13 km 2 ) Lake Drummond at its center.
It is managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service as a satellite of Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge. In 1973 about 207 acres (0.84 km 2) of salt marsh were transferred to the Service by the United States Navy to form the refuge. An additional 204 acres (0.83 km 2) were transferred in 1999. The refuge is not open to the ...
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.
Photograph of Lake Drummond, Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia. Until the late 1980s and early 1990s, much of Chesapeake was either suburban or rural, serving as a bedroom community of the adjacent cities of Norfolk and Virginia Beach with residents commuting to these locations. Beginning in the late 1980s and accelerating ...
The area, which includes the upper watershed of Dismal Creek, is a combination of high ridges and floodplain forests. [1] [3] Good views can be seen at High Point, with an elevation of 3300 feet overlooking Walker Creek Valley; and from the crest of Flat Top Mountain, 4087 feet, looking toward Sugar Run Mountain. There are old beaver ponds and ...
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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]