Dismal Swamp Canal

Runs between Chesapeake, VA and South Mills, NC, South Mills, North Carolina. County/parish: Camden.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 06, 1988. NRIS 88000528.

Part of Dismal Swamp Canal and Associated Development, Southeast Virginia and Northeast North Carolina MPS (NRIS 64500355).

9 contributing structures.

From Wikipedia:

Dismal Swamp Canal

The Dismal Swamp Canal is a canal located along the eastern edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina in the United States. Opened in 1805, it is the oldest continually operating man-made canal in the United States. It is part of the Intracoastal Waterway.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/47717374