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2 unusual facts about Swamp Water


Vereen Bell

Bell wrote the novel Swamp Water set in the Okefenokee Swamp, which was originally published in 1940 as a serial in the Saturday Evening Post.

The novel was successfully adapted as a film (B&W) of the same title in 1941 and again as a color film, Lure of The Wilderness, in 1952.



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Edge Hill State School

"Mosquitoes breed prolifically in the stagnant water of the swamps and the land mentioned is approximately three (3) feet only above swamp water level"