I just crossed the St. Francis Sunken Lands near Lake City, Arkansas, and here is a thing that might be interesting to see in Arkansas, and something I did not know existed.
I had heard that there were once large earthquakes near the Mississippi River, but I did not realize that there are large rifts in the land that are still there today. The earthquakes were called the New Madrid Earthquakes, and they occurred between December 1811 and February 1812. Not many people lived in the area then, and no one knows how many people died (apparently not many), but lands rose and fell due to the earthquakes, and the St Francis Sunken Lands dropped six to eight feet and flooded. The area is now a swamp, but there is a road over it, and I just walked across.
I would like to see that in real life.
One more stop in Arkansas, then it's on to Tennessee.
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