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Ventnor City, Atlantic County, New Jersey
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Historical villages on Panama's Isthmus, tied to buccaneer era and older than early U.S. colonies, are submerging under Lake Gatun from the Panama Canal project. List includes Gatun and others; some residents disbelieve it, invoking biblical no-flood promise.
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MANY villages on the Isthmus of Panama intimately associated with the history of the stirring buccaneer days are soon to disappear forever beneath the surface of the vast artificial lake which is now slowly filling up between Gatun and Matachin. These places were known to European civilization many years before Jamestown was settled or Massachusetts Bay was an English colony. Now they are little more than jungle hamlets, and nothing of value will disappear when the rising waters of Lake Gatun blot them out of existence. The Canal Record gives a list and short historical sketches of some of the vanishing villages. Heading the list is the old town of Gatun, which is already practically covered by eighty feet of rock, earth and water, and other places destined to disappear are Alorca Lagarto, Barbacoas, Caimito, Matachina, Bailamonos, Santa Cruz, Cruz de Juan Galgo and Cruces. Some of the inhabitants believe the inundation will not take place, and one old bush settler, after having ignored repeated warnings, ventured his opinion that the Lord has promised never again to flood the earth.
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Villages on the Isthmus of Panama, linked to buccaneer history and predating early English colonies in America, are disappearing under the rising waters of Lake Gatun created by the Panama Canal. The list includes Gatun, Alorca Lagarto, Barbacoas, Caimito, Matachina, Bailamonos, Santa Cruz, Cruz de Juan Galgo, and Cruces. Some inhabitants, including an old bush settler, deny the inundation will occur, citing the biblical promise against another global flood.