Today, rising sea levels, storms and recurrent flooding threaten the historic site like never before. These threats prompted the National Trust for Historic Preservation to place Historic Jamestowne on its most endangered historic places list for 2022. Future engineering projects are promising to help the site combat extreme weather, but there are question marks over where the necessary funding might come from.

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