Editor’s Note: There will be no Tuesday May 27 edition so we can enjoy a long weekend!
We changed our minds, the Feds recently told Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation.
As part of its cost-cutting efforts, the federal government recently cancelled a grant it awarded the group last summer to help its multi-million-dollar effort to spare Jamestown Island’s architectural treasures from rising water levels.
Jamestown was named one of the country’s 11 most endangered historic places by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2022. Encroaching wetlands, sea-level rise, extreme storm events and a rising saltwater aquifer are imperiling the site’s archaeological deposits, including human remains that can be dissolved completely by water.
The Foundation announced a five-year program, which could cost up to $40 million, to stabilize the historic site, said Foundation spokesperson Angela Johnston.
“Jamestown is America’s …