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A 1791 account of Okefenokee Swamp, newly named World Heritage site

By David Pendered July 28 – The Muscogee (Creek) Nation in the Okefenokee Swamp included “incomparably beautiful women” and “fierce men,” according to an account of the swamp published in 1791 by William Bartram, a Quaker natural scientist. Some 235 years after the book’s publication, UNESCO on July 25 added the swamp to the World […]