“By a gentleman from Jefferson...”
Date
2-19-1812
Newspaper
The Times
Page and Column
Page 3, Column 1
Newspaper Location
Charleston, South Carolina
Serial Number
407
Abstract
Report from the Augusta Herald reporting a subsidence that is credited to the February 7, 1812 earthquake. Location, Jefferson Georgia, Northwest of Athens, Georgia.
Transcript
By a gentleman from Jefferson, we are informed, that on the plantation of Mr. Ephraim Ponder, near Brier Creek, about 18 miles from this place, a body of earth about 90 feet in circumference sunk, as was supposed, on Friday night last-that the earth being held on one side by the roots of a tree at the edge of the opening, sunk in a sloping direction, and that the lower part of it was covered with water. in which bottom was not found with a sixteen foot pole. The gentleman saw the opening, but does not know that any other attempt to find bottom was made, there being no pole at hand, when he was there, longer than the sixteen foot one. Augusta Herald, Feb. 11.
Recommended Citation
"“By a gentleman from Jefferson...”" (1812). New Madrid Compendium Far-Field Database. 400.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/cas-ceri-new-madrid-compendium/400
