The true, virgin (original and undeveloped) swamp, or flooded forest, at the Audubon Center at Beidler Forest, a nature preserve, and wildlife sanctuary frequented by naturalists and photographers near Harleyville, South Carolina, outside Charleston

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The center sits within the Four Holes Swamp, a 45,000-acre matrix of black water sloughs and lakes, shallow bottomland hardwoods, and deep bald cypress and tupelo gum flats, 17,000 acres of which are owned and managed by the National Audubon Society.
Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2017; (DLC/PP-2016:103-6).
Forms part of: Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.