Green Swamp, NC - Hiking, Venus Fly Traps, Spiders and Wildflowers

photograph Venus Flytrap, Skip Pudney

Gwen Causey, Honorary State President gave a program about the Green Swamp. It was first owned by John Green and called John Greens Fields and in 1795 the land was valued at 4.2 cents an acre. Civilian Conservation Corps Camp built roads, railroads and buildings in the Green Swamp. Gwen's brother was the first caretaker of the Nature Conservatory, which in 1974 received over 13,000 acres. In the Green Swamp there are Long Leaf pine, Pond Pine, 14 different carnivorous plants and 10 different orchids.

Civilian Conservation Corps