TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Before the vast expanses of farmland, much of northwest Ohio was covered by the Great Black Swamp. Stretching from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to eastern Ottawa County, it was one ...

CECIL, Ohio (WTVG) - What was once an eight-acre hayfield tucked away in Paulding County is now a restored wetland, a rare remnant of the great black swamp. The newest addition to Forrest Woods ...

The Great Black Swamp was a wetland in northwest Ohio and extreme northeast Indiana that existed from the end of the Wisconsin glaciation period until the late 19th century The Story of the Great ...

The historic roots of Lake Erie’s algal blooms go back to a time when the western Ohio watershed that drains into the lake included an immense bog known as the Great Black Swamp. The nearly ...

Nevius, author of “City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856,″ was “both a place of slave labor’s exploitation and a place of Black resistance to ...

A documentary about the area located in Northwest Ohio, known as the Great Black Swamp. This 1982 WBGU-PBS documentary investigates the black swamp area in Northwest Ohio, from its creation during ...

Lauren Kinsman-Costello talks about the drainage of the former Great Black Swamp. Lauren Kinsman-Costello, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at Kent State University, talks about the ...

Moraine Valley Community College just may become the new Great Black Swamp. An annual event called the Great Black Swamp Folk Festival became legendary at Ohio State University by attracting ...

Today, the Great Dismal Swamp is a National Wildlife Refuge stretching between Virginia and North Carolina. But from the late 1600s to the Civil War, indigenous peoples and slaves sought refuge ...

The Great Black Swamp Dulcimer Festival grew out of the work of Michael Wildermuth and Dr. Susan Porter at what was then known as OSU/Lima Tech. According to a booklet commemorating the festival ...