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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.