GREAT DISMAL SWAMP MEGASITE
A richly historic man made waterway, the Great Dismal Swamp Canal MegaSite is dedicated to the enslaved and free men that built the oldest made waterway in America. Now recognized as part of the National Underground Railroad, this historic waterway is a national treasure and the basis of this website.
Halfway House VA/NC Border
Great Links related to the Dismal Swamp:
Dismal Swamp Canal Visitors Center
Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
The original Stockholders (Dismal Swamp)
Thomas Moore Ballad (1779-1852)
Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway Asso
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
National Watereways Conference
Great Blue Heron-One of many creatures living in the Great Dismal Swamp
ZMoses White Sawmill off Rt 158 in Pasquotank County N.C. Moses white was rumored to have made over $1,000.000.00 here in the Great Swamp from harvesting Juniper timber. Here is one of the train engines that helped move lumber through the dismal swamp!