When the earth began to rumble in the trading settlement of New Madrid in southeastern Missouri on December 16, 1811, it was the start of a series of earthquakes that would continue in the area for months. Three of the tremors were among the largest to strike North America since European settlement. At the time, …
Walker introduced a resolution in the Missouri General Assembly ordering the Highway Department to withdraw the offending, taxpayer-funded maps. He called the omission of the county “serious and extremely detrimental.” But the resolution was shuffled into the House Committee on Miscellaneous Affairs, where legal nuisances were often smothered.
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