Traffic through LaPlace down La. 628 passes an unassuming two-story white house with a tin roof and green-accented shutters. Surrounded by trees, and with an inviting front stairway and a porch big ...
Residents flee their collapsing cabin in New Madrid, Mo., early on Dec. 16, 1811, during the first of what became known as the New Madrid earthquakes. The last major shake was on Feb. 7, 1812. The ...