A spectacular image of a rare "rainbow pool" phenomenon has been captured at a swamp in Virginia. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) posted the photo—taken in the Great Dismal Swamp National ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) – A Great Dismal Swamp Canal Trail boat ramp and parking area will be closed several months for construction. The city of Chesapeake says the Ballahack Boat Ramp and parking ...

The National Park Service say a National Heritage Area represents much more than the land it covers; it tells the story of a region and the people who lived in it. The proposed Great Dismal Swamp ...

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) – The Norfolk District’s U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has announced that the Great Dismal Swamp Canal will be temporarily closed. Starting on Jan. 8 through March 31, the Great ...

SUFFOLK, Va. — William Byrd, a Colonial-era surveyor and satirist who in 1728 established the dividing line between southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina, is credited with blessing the Great ...

The Great Dismal Swamp, as the name given to it by mosquito-swatting British colonists implies, isn’t always hospitable to humans. Although it’s now part of a popular national wildlife refuge and ...

A wildfire in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge in northeast North Carolina continues to burn, despite several inches of rain from Hurricane Irene, authorities said Tuesday. A wildfire ...

President Joe Biden on Friday began the process of designating the Great Dismal Swamp as a National Heritage Area in recognition of its history and connections with local Indigenous tribes and African ...

Train cars full of coal went off the tracks in the Great Dismal Swamp this week. The 36 Norfolk Southern train cars derailed at 4:20 a.m. Tuesday “in the boundaries of the Great Dismal Swamp National ...

The Great Dismal Swamp, which once encompassed more than 1 million acres, still remains despite years of logging, drainage, development and other threats, says historian Perri Meldon. Meldon was ...

In the 1800s, southern newspapers ran ads seeking runaway slaves suspected of taking refuge in a vast wetland called the Great Dismal Swamp. See how archaeologists are using new discoveries to piece ...

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