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 ...

“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.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Down along the state line in Frankford exists Delaware’s largest freshwater wetland and contiguous block of forest, and perhaps ...