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.

In the lowland tidewater yellow pines tend to dominate, with bald cypress wetland forests in the Great Dismal and Nottoway swamps.

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.

Caddo Lake, the Great Dismal and Reelfoot are swamps that are centered at large lakes.

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

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.

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

The counties of Gates, Perquimans, Camden and Currituck contain sixty percent of 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.

* Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge ( part )

Roach was born in the Township of Newland, Pasquotank County, North Carolina, which borders the southern edge of the Great Dismal Swamp, to Alphonse and Cressie Roach.

The success led to a play based on Stowe's Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp.

* Dred, A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp ( 1856 )

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.

Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp.

* 1675 – King Philip's War: A combined effort by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts.

* Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge

* 1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.

During King Philip's War ( 1675 – 1676 ), a force of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Plymouth militia under General Josiah Winslow invaded and destroyed the fortified Narragansett Indian village in the Great Swamp in what is now South Kingstown, Rhode Island, on December 19, 1675.

Toledo sits north of what had been the Great Black Swamp, giving rise to another nickname, Frog Town.

A small but important part of the Strip — the area around present day Toledo and Maumee Bay — fell within the Great Black Swamp, and this area was nearly impossible to navigate by road, especially after spring and summer rainfalls.

Detroit was twenty miles ( 32 km ) up the Detroit River from Lake Erie, and faced the difficult barrier of the Great Black Swamp to the south.

* December 19 – United colonial forces attack the Narragansetts at the Great Swamp Fight.

The Great Swamp, formerly located south of the lake, was a rich wetlands habitat important to many species of birds and wildlife.

In the early 19th century, the Hartford and Dedham Turnpike was built ( now Rt 109 ), a straight route built through the Great Black Swamp, and up a large hill in the center of town.

In the period from 1806 to 1810, the Hartford and Dedham Turnpike was built ( now Route 109 ), nearly going broke in attempting to build a causeway over the Charles River at the Medfield town line and through the Great Black Swamp.

* Great Black Swamp, Indiana / Ohio, United States

* Great Cypress Swamp, Maryland, United States, also known as Great Pocomoke Swamp

Along the 127-mile route through Great Smoky Mountains National Park you can photograph the breath-taking peaks, gorges and valleys which come into view at every turn.

Pueblo Bonito, the largest of the Chacoan Great Houses, stands at the foot of Chaco Culture National Historical Park | Chaco Canyon's northern rim.

First century BC mosaic of Alexander the Great bearing on his armor an image of the Gorgon as an aegis-Naples National Archaeological Museum

The Negro National League did well until 1930, but folded during the Great Depression.

In 2010, there were 1. 33 billion journeys on the National Rail network, making the British network the fifth most used in the world ( Great Britain ranks 23rd in world population ).

In 1931 MacDonald's government fell apart under the Great Depression, and the Liberals agreed to join his National Government, dominated by the Conservatives.

Six of Chaplin's films have been selected for preservation in the National Film Registry: The Immigrant ( 1917 ), The Kid ( 1921 ), The Gold Rush ( 1925 ), City Lights ( 1931 ), Modern Times ( 1936 ), and The Great Dictator ( 1940 ).

In 2011, Richard Bean adapted the play for the National Theatre of Great Britain, at the request of director Nicholas Hytner, as a vehicle for actor James Corden.

** Cumberland Road, a historical road, also called the Great National Pike and the National Road, the first United States federal highway

* YouTube Video: " The Great Depression, Displaced Mountaineers in Shenandoah National Park, and the Civilian Conservation Corps ( C. C. C.

* NARA film: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 1936

* Great Union Day, celebrates the Union of Transylvania with Romania in 1918 ; since 1990, National Day ( Romania )

Image: GreatGalleryedit. jpg | Pictographs from the Great Gallery, Canyonlands National Park, Horseshoe Canyon, Utah, c. 1500 BCE

The National Lottery also released a flood of funds for major enhancements to existing attractions, for example the roofing of the Great Court at the British Museum.

* 1934 – The U. S. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.

" The Illegality of the Forced Treaties Leading to Japan's Annexation of the Great Han Empire ", In the Korean National Commission for UNESCO, Vol.

" Nearly all railroads were using Krupp rails, the New York Central, Illinois Central, Delaware and Hudson, Maine Central, Lake Shore and Michigin Southern, Bangor and Aarostook, Great Northern, Boston and Albany, Florida and East Coast, Texas and Pacific, Southern pacific, and Mexican National.

* Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail Interpretive Center in Great Falls, Montana

Category: Recipients of the Great Cross of the National Order of Scientific Merit ( Brazil )

This bill, which reauthorized the National Sea Grant Program, contained a line declaring Lake Champlain to be a Great Lake.

* 1985 – Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.

In Great Britain, the Ordnance Survey use the term myriad to refer to a 100 km × 100 km area in the National Grid.

* 1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.

Geographical features include Great Bear Lake, the largest lake entirely within Canada, and Great Slave Lake, the deepest body of water in Canada at, as well as the Mackenzie River and the canyons of the Nahanni National Park Reserve, a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site.