Three were completed when the War of 1812 broke out ; these were the Santee Canal ( opened 1800 ) in South Carolina, the Middlesex Canal ( opened 1802 ) in Massachusetts and the Dismal Swamp Canal ( opened 1805 ) in Virginia.

Some of his proposals were adopted, specifically the extension of the Cumberland Road into Ohio with surveys for its continuation west to St. Louis ; the beginning of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the construction of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal and the Louisville and Portland Canal around the falls of the Ohio ; the connection of the Great Lakes to the Ohio River system in Ohio and Indiana ; and the enlargement and rebuilding of the Dismal Swamp Canal in North Carolina.

The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge extends into North Carolina, as does the Back Bay National Wildlife Refuge, which marks the beginning of the Outer Banks.

Suffolk, which includes a portion of the Great Dismal Swamp, is the largest city by area at.

Other famous swamps in the United States are the Everglades, Okefenokee Swamp, Barley Barber Swamp and the Great Dismal Swamp.

The Great Dismal Swamp lies in extreme southeastern Virginia and extreme northeastern North Carolina.

* Great Dismal Swamp, North Carolina / Virginia, United States

Based on Thomas Moore's poem " The Lake of the Dismal Swamp ," the opera was staged after Gorey's death and directed by his friend, neighbor, and longtime collaborator Carol Verburg, with a puppet stage made by his friends and neighbors the noted set designers Herbert Senn and Helen Pond.

Chesapeake is a diverse city with few urban areas as well as many square miles of protected farmland, forests, and wetlands, including a substantial portion of the Great Dismal Swamp.

Photograph of Lake Drummond, Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, Virginia

The northeastern part of the Great Dismal Swamp is located in Chesapeake.

Within the city limits in the southwestern section is a large portion of the Great Dismal Swamp.

Opened in 1805-1822, it ran straight east for ten miles ( 16 km ) through the Dismal Swamp, from a landing on Daniels Road in Gates County to the Dismal Swamp Canal.

In 1925, Hwy 158 opened between Gates and Pasquotank through the Great Dismal Swamp.

The Conservancy next donated the land to the Department of The Interior, and the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was created.

The county is the site of the southern terminus of the Dismal Swamp Canal.

* Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge ( part )

* Dismal Swamp

* Dismal Swamp, preserved wetlands area that also includes portions of Metuchen and South Plainfield.

Founded in 1794, Elizabeth City prospered early on from the Dismal Swamp Canal as a mercantile city, before later shifting later into a varied industrial and commercial focus.

The Dismal Swamp Canal

In 1793, construction of the Dismal Swamp Canal, which would drive Elizabeth City's commerce, began, the North Carolina Assembly incorporated the town of Redding.

The improvements made to the Dismal Swamp Canal made Elizabeth City a financial center of trade and commercially successful for the early 19th century.

With these funds, the Dismal Swamp Canal was widened and deepened, allowing for larger boats to ship their goods.

All four proposed sections of Gallatin's intracoastal plan were eventually built ; the Delaware and Raritan Canal was later abandoned for a better alternative, but the Cape Cod Canal remains in operation, and the Delaware and the Dismal Swamp portions still form part of the larger present day Intracoastal Waterway.

* Dismal Swamp Canal

Along the eastern edge runs the Dismal Swamp Canal, completed in 1805.

The Dismal Swamp Canal was authorized by Virginia in 1787 and by North Carolina in 1790.

The canal deteriorated after the Albemarle and Chesapeake Canal was completed in 1858, but in 1929 the U. S. Government bought the Dismal Swamp Canal and began to improve it.

* Dismal Swamp Canal Welcome Center

* Bonny Blue Dismal Swamp Canal Trip

* Dismal Swamp Canal Welcome Center

The Dismal Swamp Canal Visitor Center is the only Visitor Center in the continental U. S. greeting visitors by both a major highway and a historic waterway.

* Dismal Swamp Canal Visitors Center

According to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, the castle is located in Dismal Downs, somewhere in Rannoch Moor ( a non-fictional location in Scotland ).

* Rannoch Moor: The region where Dismal Downs is located ; a real location in Scotland.

The county is divided into nineteen townships: Belvoir, Dismal, Franklin, Halls, Herring, Honeycutt, Lisbon, Little Coharie, McDaniels, Mingo, Newton Grove, North Clinton, Piney Grove, Plain View, South Clinton, South River, Taylors Bridge, Turkey, and Westbrook.

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp is the second novel from American author Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Dred, the titular character, is one of the Great Dismal Swamp maroons, escaped slaves living in the Great Dismal Swamp, preaching angry and violent retribution for the evils of slavery and rescuing escapees from the dog of the slavecatchers.

The novel also contains detailed descriptions of the wetlands in the " Dismal Swamp " and is therefore also interesting in the context of the way in which African Americans relate to the natural environment.

According to Don Rosa, Castle McDuck, the ancestral home of Scrooge McDuck's family, the Clan McDuck is located in Dismal Downs somewhere on Rannoch Moor.

The final part is the Orb so Jack has to find his way to the Necromancers ' Land of the Dead through Dismal Swamp and upon reassembling the Staff, he follows Hecubah to the Underworld and defeats her in the final climatic fight.

* Mordwyn the Druggist is Aldwyn's brother who lives in the Dismal Swamp and appears late in every game route to briefly assist Jack on his quest.

He is portrayed as an intensely religious man, nicknamed Dismal Jimmy by the men under his command.

The Great Dismal Swamp is a marshy area on the Coastal Plain Region of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina between Norfolk, Virginia, and Elizabeth City, North Carolina in the United States.

He is credited with naming it the Dismal Swamp.

Its role in the history of slavery in the United States is reflected in Harriet Beecher Stowe's second novel, Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp.

The Great Dismal Swamp is a southern swamp, the one most north of many along the Atlantic Ocean's coast that includes the Everglades and the Big Cypress in Florida, the Okefenokee, the Congress and Four Holes swamps of South Carolina, and some of the Carolina Bays.

The Great Dismal Swamp is in southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina between the James River ( Norfolk, Virginia ) and the Albemarle Sound ( Edenton, North Carolina ).

Today, the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is now just over in size.

The Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge is located not only between two states, but also between two eco-regions, allowing for a wide range of plant and animal species.

It is located in the South Hampton Roads region at the northeastern edge of the Great Dismal Swamp, an area consisting of generally low-lying sandy terrain of the coastal plain.