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Dismal Swamp & Outdoors Brief · Camden County, NC

For the buyer who came for the water.

The Dismal Swamp Canal runs the length of this county beside US-17, and it has been carrying boats since 1805. A state park sits on one bank and a national wildlife refuge behind it. Three chapters on the corridor itself, on what water access here actually means, and on the coastal and flood rules that decide what you can build on it.