National wildlife refuges help conserve our nation’s history as well as our natural heritage.
At Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge, archeologists are studying the sites of a settlement occupied for two centuries by once-enslaved African Americans and their descendants. In 2004 the refuge was named part of the National Park Service’s Underground Railroad Network to Freedom because the swamp offered some a treacherous escape from slavery. Learn how Black History is honored on national wildlife refuges in the Northeast. https://www.fws.gov/story/2022-02/honoring-black-history-national-wildlife-refuges
