It was “Great” because of its size: It once reached all the way to Virginia's Back Bay. And “Dismal” because people often called swamps “dismals” at the time . Byrd himself called the Great Dismal “a miserable morass where nothing can inhabit.” (He also thought North Carolinians were lazy and ate too much barbecue).
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The swamp was a refuge location for the Great Dismal Swamp maroons, including enslaved people in the Southern states before the American Civil War, and Native ... Dismal Swamp Canal · Maroons · Lake Drummond · National Wildlife Refuge |
4 февр. 2020 г. · The Great Dismal Swamp is a large area of natural swampland. It sits on the border between Virginia and North Carolina. It is in the coastal plain and very ... |
23 февр. 2021 г. · Enslaved African Americans fleeing to safety would use the swamp as a temporary hiding place before traveling northward by boat to freedom. |
The Early 1700s: A Virginia aristocrat puts the swamp on the map. In 1728, William Byrd II gave the swamp its name (he thought it was dismal). He was here ... |
The Great Dismal Swamp is a geological wonder. For millions of years before the Swamp was formed, it was under the sea. It is viewed by naturalists and other ... |
Believed to be only about 10,000 years in age, the Great Dismal is a wet, forested mantle of peat above a Pleistocene-era ocean bed. Once a vast morass over ... |
The lake is named after William Drummond, a seventeenth-century governor of North Carolina who, legend says, got lost in the swamp with a group of hunters. All ... |
26 июл. 2010 г. · Called “great,” possibly because of its size, it was called “dismal” because that was a common term at the time for a swamp or morass. |
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