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Report: Historic Jamestown Could Be Wiped Off Map

By Hugh CollinsSep 1st 2010 – 4:11PM
Adrin Snider, Newport News Daily Press/MCT

Adrin Snider, Newport News Daily Press/MCT

(Sept. 1) -- Jamestown, Va., the site of the first permanent English colony in what became the United States, could be wiped off the map by climate change, researchers warned today. As the polar ice caps melt, rising sea levels could completely swamp the historical location that has stood as an icon of American history...

Background on jamestown settlement

Jamestown Settlement is a name used by the Commonwealth of Virginia's portion of the historical sites and museums at Jamestown.

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