I've surveyed land around the great dismal and let me tell you... it is a dismal place to work in. The woods can be thick, wet and wrapped up with snakes, ticks, poison and all the good stuff that makes working in the woods miserable. Snakes never really bothered me working in the woods but I'll never forget a particular area around there that seemed to be very populated with moccasins and rattlesnakes.
Suffolk, Franklin, South Boston, Isle of Wright, Smithfield are all part of the Tidewater Area of the Old Dominion. They were all sleepy little burgs 40-45 years ago that has grown and consolidated by leaps and bounds from a mainly isolated agricultural area to a more cosmopolitan area. Still a great place to live.
If you cannot live with some of the most aggressive and hateful mosquitoes, stay away from the swamp in the hot summer. They are something else, but a ride through the lake and viewing the cypress trees is something to be remembered. As a kid with Nansemond Indian ancestry, we took canoes down the Geo Washing Canal and went into the swamp from there and it is a spooky place and if you hate snakes, this may not be the place for you to take a trek. All in all, having said that, the swamp has a spirit of it's own. Check it out and bring the heavy duty bug spray.
The dismal swamp was hand dredged by the slaves in my family and they not going to tell you how many people drowned when they made the waters connect 😢
@@Therootdoctress now they want to spend millions on a park that shows how we used to live in those conditions putting up buildings instead of taking the money and giving it to the families that suffered just like they made up white Jews because they didn't want to give the money to the black skinned people and the white Jews they giving the money to was the killer's the whole time so in reality they actually paying them for killing us because the white Jews were the Christan army!
@@Therootdoctress look at the movie antz that was the whole plot they didn't want us wandering around so the whole plan was to use us and then kill all of us
@@Therootdoctress they blocked a lot of my comments but now they want to take millions of dollars and make a park there to show how we survived instead of taking the money and giving it to the families that suffered they have the names of the people that were slaves so it's not hard to pay the families
Uhm no. There was alot of mixing between Africans and indigenous folks. Try reading Dr Gerald Horne not quoting random Hebrew Israelites who you meet outside if the 711
Thank you 🙏🏾 ✨🤎
You could also mention the NC visitors center just past the state line on US-17. Excellent info and museum across the footbridge
This is great! I often bike on the canal trail. You should also do a story about Moses Grandy.
Thank you for shedding light on the great Dismal Swamp. Would love to hear more about this place and lake Drummond. Will definitely visit one day!
I've surveyed land around the great dismal and let me tell you... it is a dismal place to work in. The woods can be thick, wet and wrapped up with snakes, ticks, poison and all the good stuff that makes working in the woods miserable. Snakes never really bothered me working in the woods but I'll never forget a particular area around there that seemed to be very populated with moccasins and rattlesnakes.
Suffolk, Franklin, South Boston, Isle of Wright, Smithfield are all part of the Tidewater Area of the Old Dominion. They were all sleepy little burgs 40-45 years ago that has grown and consolidated by leaps and bounds from a mainly isolated agricultural area to a more cosmopolitan area. Still a great place to live.
8:00 isnt that Joe Louis on the right
Great video!! I loved it!
Ha! Pretty good. LOL @ the sequence of the history of the swamp as told by the ranger. All-around good piece. 👍👍👍
If you cannot live with some of the most aggressive and hateful mosquitoes, stay away from the swamp in the hot summer. They are something else, but a ride through the lake and viewing the cypress trees is something to be remembered. As a kid with Nansemond Indian ancestry, we took canoes down the Geo Washing Canal and went into the swamp from there and it is a spooky place and if you hate snakes, this may not be the place for you to take a trek. All in all, having said that, the swamp has a spirit of it's own. Check it out and bring the heavy duty bug spray.
Great job!
PBS here you come!
So a black person. Created mr peanut. Haa yessss..... #fba
Mary Pleasants and Dixie Bell Edwards went down there to hunt black bear in Great Dismal swamp. I hope they get some
The dismal swamp was hand dredged by the slaves in my family and they not going to tell you how many people drowned when they made the waters connect 😢
Wow right
@@Therootdoctress now they want to spend millions on a park that shows how we used to live in those conditions putting up buildings instead of taking the money and giving it to the families that suffered just like they made up white Jews because they didn't want to give the money to the black skinned people and the white Jews they giving the money to was the killer's the whole time so in reality they actually paying them for killing us because the white Jews were the Christan army!
@@Therootdoctress look at the movie antz that was the whole plot they didn't want us wandering around so the whole plan was to use us and then kill all of us
@@Therootdoctress they blocked a lot of my comments but now they want to take millions of dollars and make a park there to show how we survived instead of taking the money and giving it to the families that suffered they have the names of the people that were slaves so it's not hard to pay the families
That's Joe Lewis in that picture!
Black water, Eric Prince. Bought large amounts of the Swamp
Hard to believe we dredge all this this with primitive technology....
It’s funny hearing people not from that area pronounce the city names
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Discovered…. Ughhhhh
Many of the Blacks were aboriginal Americans not African.
Faxx because we don't look African we have lighter dark hues
No
Uhm no. There was alot of mixing between Africans and indigenous folks. Try reading Dr Gerald Horne not quoting random Hebrew Israelites who you meet outside if the 711
@@Benjamin-jo4rf we are the REAL AMERICAN INDIANS
Giving our accomplishments to 🌍 is completely 🙎🏼🙎🏼♂️ supremacy