J oining southeastern Virginia with northeastern North Carolina, the Great Dismal Swamp is a stretch of forested wetland that ...

“In 2004, when I started talking about large, permanent maroon settlements in the Great Dismal Swamp, most scholars thought I was nuts,” says Sayers. “They thought in terms of ...

National Park Service seeks input on potential designation highlighting the historic, environmental and cultural significance ...

These maroons (or outlyers ... maroonage in Virginia and the northern colonies was mostly limited to the Great Dismal Swamp, on the Virginia and North Carolina border. The lower South, however ...

There are 62 National Heritage Areas across the country; parts of North Carolina and Virginia may become the 63rd.

The National Park Service is asking the public to provide input for a study to determine the feasibility and suitability of ...