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"Sunken land and dismal swamps" - what's in that area now?
It's actually got a huge area of land called The Great Dismal Swamp. Lots of park land and wilderness in rural Virginia. Someone from the area may be able to weigh in on it. I passed through years ago and the name struck me as hilarious.
If you've ever been in southern VA in the summer you'll understand the name "Dismal." It is nice that we have protected wetlands though.
It's actually a wetlands/swamp that stretches from Norfolk into north Carolina. Most people don't really realize that most of the area south of the Mid-Atlantic coast was at one point all swamp/marsh. The Great dismal swamp was nearly 3 times as large only a couple hundred years ago.
Looks like the name stuck!
Mattamuskeet National Wildlife Refuge