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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25R6_great-dismal-swamp-national-wildlife-refuge_Chesapeake-VA.html
Across the canal lies the US Fish & Wildlife Service's Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge.
The Great Dismal Swamp was once a vast ecosystem that covered as much as one million acres of southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Caro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25QV_from-towpath-to-highway-to-toe-path_Chesapeake-VA.html
The walking path you are standing on right now has quite a history.
In 1804, it was a tow road on the eastern bank of the canal, where laborers, using long wooden poles, ropes or mules, pushed loaded barges full of shingles, lumber, corn husks,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25QU_outliers_Chesapeake-VA.html
Between 1793 and 1814, the grueling, brutal job of digging this twenty-three mile canal was done by slave labor.
Dense underbrush, insects, venomous snakes and bears made the Great Dismal Swamp an "awesome and terrible place."
(Colonel William…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23NE_dismal-swamp-canal-trail_Chesapeake-VA.html
(main legend, lower right corner) The Dismal Swamp Canal Trail, a former section of Virginia State Route 17, is now a multi-purpose, linear, nature trail and park traversing some of the most uniquely historic and ecologically significant habitats …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1GDT_justin-holland_Chesapeake-VA.html
Justin Holland was a 19th-century pioneer African American of the classical guitar, community leader, and abolitionist. Born in Norfolk County about 1819, he left for Massachusetts in 1833. There he took music lessons and learned to play the guita…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRTS_herring-heron-ditch_Chesapeake-VA.html
Herring Ditch was one of many ditches that connected with the Dismal Swamp Canal. Ditches were used to transport goods to the canal, allow access to swamp timber, and provide drainage. Walter Herron, a Dismal Swamp Canal Company stockholder, began…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP9J_north-west-canal_Chesapeake-VA.html
Approved by the Virginia General Assembly in 1818, the North West Canal was constructed by the Dismal Swamp Canal Company between 1828 and 1830. The canal was intended for carrying timber and farm products between the Dismal Swamp Canal and the No…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEU5_glencoe_Chesapeake-VA.html
"Glencoe," the plantation home of Capt. William Wallace of the Jackson Grays, was located approximately one-half mile northeast of this site.
William C. Wallace was born at Wallaceton, Norfolk County, Virginia, on March 23, 1842, and mustered i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2M7_village-of-deep-creek_Chesapeake-VA.html
Before you is the Deep Creek Lock of the Great Dismal Swamp Canal. The canal was an important thoroughfare, connecting the North Carolina Sounds with Hampton Roads and the Chesapeake Bay. The Dismal Swamp Canal is the oldest operating artificial w…