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Jamestown Colonists Resorted to Cannibalism
2013-05-01 18:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Jamestown archaeologists have discovered the first evidence of cannibalism by desperate colonists driven by hunger during the Starving Times of 1609-1610, at the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Portions of the butchered skull and shinbone of a 14-year-old girl from England were unearthed last year while researchers excavated a trash deposit at the James Fort site. The findings answer a longstanding question among historians about the occurrence of cannibalism at the settlement...
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Jamestown Purchases $50.5M Retail and Office Portfolio
2013-04-05 15:46:00| National Real Estate Investor
Jamestown has purchased a retail and office portfolio in San Luis Obispo, Calif. The deal includes 195,000 sq. ft. of retail space and 28,000 sq ft of office space in three properties. Jamestown purchased the portfolio in exchange for a $50.5 million investment in Premier Property Fund. read more
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Jamestown faces a future of rising tides
2013-03-11 13:39:51| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Times Dispatch: Nature has always been cruel here. Bad drinking water and mosquitoes, among other problems, bedeviled those who created in 1607 the first permanent English settlement in North America. Today the land itself is at risk, threatened by rising sea levels aided by a warming climate. Most of Jamestown occupies an island that lies 3 feet or less above the tidal James River. If current projections hold, all of that low land will be underwater by 2100, and much of the island will be increasingly...
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Windstream Closing Jamestown Retail Store
2013-01-28 10:55:29| Grocery - Topix.net
On Friday, Windstream announced the closing, which company officials said would not affect services the company provides to local residential and business customers.
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