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Source: CNN

10/18/2021

St. Malo, Louisiana, Site of Earliest Filipino-American Settlement, Threatened by Climate Change

More than a century ago, long before the Civil War, St. Malo was the first permanent Filipino settlement in the United States. Preserving the settlement's history is now a race against time.