In this video, we follow a 117-year-old map to uncover the ruins of the historic farming community, Pitts Quarters. Join us as we explore this fascinating site and search for hidden remnants of the ...

Smoke from a wildfire in the Great Dismal Swamp is already having a dismal effect on the Richmond area's air quality. The smoke started sweeping across the Richmond area Friday night, casting a ...

Although many alligators live just a few miles away in North Carolina, a natural barrier keeps them out of the Great Dismal Swamp, Freeman said. But, be wary, nonetheless, where you step.

The vast salt farms ... Nothing dismal about that. Close to the River Forth in northern Tassie, Nowhere Else is a rural locality that is home to 40 residents. It’s a speck on the map – the ...

(highly unlikely, though they do occasionally visit from the Great Dismal Swamp to the northeast ... visit their official website or Facebook page. Use this map to find your way to one of North ...

Once 2,000 square miles in Virginia and North Carolina, the swamp today is perhaps one-tenth that size. Allison Shelley The worse it gets, as I wade and stumble through the Great Dismal Swamp ...

By the 1950s, the last of the virgin timber in the Great Dismal Swamp was gone, according to a National Park Service story map. On George Washington’s birthday in 1973, about 50,000 acres of swamp ...

The National Park Service is asking members of the public to share their thoughts about a potential National Heritage Area designation in the region of the Great Dismal Swamp, a ...

The proposed Great Dismal Swamp National Heritage Area is in the middle of a three-year feasibility study process. That includes a public comment period, which is open now until May 19th.

Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is a one-hour ... The Caretaker of Muncy Farms: When he was five years old, Malcolm Barlow arrived at a country estate in Pennsylvania to escape World ...

A body with gunshot wounds was located along the Dismal Swamp Canal Trail on Sunday afternoon, Chesapeake Police said. <a href="https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news ...

Apex Clean Energy is closing out the year celebrating a couple of key financial agreements and the start of operations at North Carolina’s second-ever wind farm. Today the Charlottesville ... the ...