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Illinois Earthquake Tales from Early Illinois History
In Southern Illinois during 1857 58 old inhabitants recalled the 1811 12 quakes and the great 1815 cyclone Harriken. They describe how log cabin homes survived without nails while ground fissures and white sand piles marked the landscape. Stories tie local tremors to the broader New Madrid seismic zone.
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Dante Berry
Ilinoisy
Wilson
Wm. Wilson
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Waterloo
White County
Finois
Iinois
Mr. Yearby Land
Mr. Land
Robert Land
South Carolina
Gallatin County
Gallatin
Carmi and
Hawthorne Townships
Arthur Henrie
Jared Mansfield
United States
Shawneetown
Land
Big Prairie
Wabash
New Orleans
Jacob Parker
N. W
Marshall Hills
Little Wabash
Yearby
Williams
Charles Carroll
Eddy
Judge Eddy
Harvey Crozier
Carmi
John Cochran
Daniel Boone
Kentucky
Boone
Missouri
Kaskaskia
Wesley McCallister
Edward McCallister
Ireland
Virginia
the Cowpens
Morgan
Miss DeHart
Ilinois
Green
Ohio Rivers
Wabash River
Cadd's Ferry
Marshall's Ferry
Pirouque