Great Cypress Swamp
Great Pocomoke Swamp or Cypress Swamp, is located on the Delmarva Peninsula in South Delaware and Southeastern Maryland. It is the northernmost of the southern swamps and one of many along the Atlantic Ocean's coast it is a freshwater swamp covering about 50 sq mi/130 sq km, mostly in S. Sussex Co., DE; source of Pocomoke River, which flows south, and Pepper Creek that flows NE; 38°29'N 75°18'W. This swamp once yielded much cypress timber. Due to over harvesting and a disastrous peat fire in 1930 much of its vegetation was destroyed. It is also called Big Cypress Swamp.