Day 10 – New Madrid, Missouri

Courthouse

 

Yesterday we stopped in the tiny town of New Madrid, pop. 3,200.  Its claim to fame is a series of earthquakes in 1812-13 that were the worst in U.S. history.  There were four earthquakes rating 8.0 on the Richter scale plus 1,000+ smaller quakes and aftershocks.

Today we dock in Hickman, Kentucky.

Truman campaigned for the Senate from the Courthouse steps.

 

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