Down along the state line in Frankford exists Delaware’s largest freshwater wetland and contiguous block of forest, and perhaps its last truly wild land: the Great Cypress Swamp. At one time, the ...

“The Swamp” makes up about 10,000 acres of land in Sussex County, Del. and Worcester County, Md. Although that may seem like a lot, at one point there was an estimated 60,000 acres.

Strange folklore haunts Great Cypress Swamp near Selbyville, tales allegedly connected to a plane crash, runaway slaves, and a woman who survived a grisly murder. One of the strangest stories inspired ...

John Dagworthy had a problem. By the end of the French and Indian War, he had acquired over 20,000 acres of land bordering on the Great Cypress Swamp; but much of this land was covered by forests and ...

Southern Sussex County's Great Cypress Swamp used to encompass over 50,000 acres, but was nearly destroyed by centuries of fires, logging, ditching and draining. Today, nonprofit Delaware Wild Lands ...