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Archive Home > 2010 > October > 26 > Last home on sinking Chesapeake Bay island collapses

Last home on sinking Chesapeake Bay island collapses

Sinking land, rising waters threaten once-thriving bay island communities

By David A. Fahrenthold / The Bulletin
October 26, 2010

HOLLAND ISLAND, Md. — The story was strange enough to be a child's fable: In an isolated section of the Chesapeake Bay, there was a two-story Victorian house that seemed to emerge directly from the water.

And, scurrying around it, there was a retiree, trying to keep the house from falling....

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