Preservation groups warn that Jamestown, Virginia, may not survive another generation because of climate change.
But climate change is accelerating the pace of erosion and flooding, jeopardising the site as well as further research and the potential for future discoveries.
Work to repair the 100-year-old sea wall is expected to start soon and plans are underway to overhaul the drainage system and install protective berms with pumps. The projects will cost tens of millions of dollars and funding is urgently needed. in America based on the rule of law and individual freedoms. But a few months later slavery was established in the new colony when a ship carrying captives from Angola arrived at its shores.Archaeologists unearth a grave believed to contain the remains of Sir George Yeardley who presided over the first General Assembly
Other sites - which include a Japanese internment camp, an artist's house and a cave sacred to native Americans - are threatened by neglect, development and private ownership. And severe termite damage has forced the closure of the Brown Chapel AME Church in Selma, Alabama. The church played a pivotal role in the civil rights marches that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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