Eerily relevant to recent events, albeit magnitudes in scale difference, the fact (a) it happened here in my state, and, on this date, and (b) that I never knew of it til now, after exploring google earth late night.
> The obscure Indian trail transformed into the Coös Road, on which was built a small public house in 1793. It was abandoned, but in 1825 Samuel Willey Jr. occupied it with his wife, five children, and two hired hands. During a violent storm on August 28, 1826, they all died in a landslide known as Willey's Slide. They fled their home and took refuge in a shelter, but it was destroyed while the house remained unscathed.
Eerily relevant to recent events, albeit magnitudes in scale difference, the fact (a) it happened here in my state, and, on this date, and (b) that I never knew of it til now, after exploring google earth late night.
> The obscure Indian trail transformed into the Coös Road, on which was built a small public house in 1793. It was abandoned, but in 1825 Samuel Willey Jr. occupied it with his wife, five children, and two hired hands. During a violent storm on August 28, 1826, they all died in a landslide known as Willey's Slide. They fled their home and took refuge in a shelter, but it was destroyed while the house remained unscathed.