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.