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Natchez Bluff and Riverfront: One of Most Endangered Places in America
Some of America's most irreplaceable landmarks are threatened. This is why the National Trust for Historic Preservation developed its “Most Endangered Historic Places” list. Eleven new sites representing the diversity and complexity of America's story, and the variety of threats that endanger it, are listed each year. “Each one is enormously important to our understanding of who we are as a nation and a people,” says Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
The Natchez Bluff and Riverfront were added to the Eleven Most Endangered Places in America list in 1994. The threat was updated in 2003 and again in 2007.
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