Early travelers saw smoke, heat and burning material in the Missouri River bluffs and believed a volcano existed near the vanished town of Ionia. Later investigation attributed the phenomenon to chemical processes and burning deposits, but the “volcano” legend persisted for decades.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: history.nebraska.gov/marker-monday-the-ionia-volcano/