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2 VA 6. Dragon Run Swamp. Acreage: 1000 estimated. 



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2 Location: King & Queen, Middlesex, and Essex counties; Dunnsville and Tru- 



> hart quadrangles; 60 miles E of Richmond; reached via U.S. 360. 



Description: From U.S. 360 to tidewater Dragon Run is a wild, wide, fresh- 

 water, wooded cypress swamp. The river channels have been dammed by beaver 

 and the ponds so created support ducks, geese, and marsh birds. Muskrat, rac- 

 coon, otter, and deer are abundant. 



Encroachments: Timber operations. 



Ownership: R. K. Walden, Eubanks, George T. Moore, J. G. King, Dr. Stanley 

 T. Gray, T. Franklin Fary, and others. 



Data source: R. G. Gibbons, State of Virginia, Division of Parks, 501 Southern 

 States Bldg., 7th and Main Sts., Richmond, Va. 23200. 



