The Willey family lived beneath the steep walls of Crawford Notch when a catastrophic landslide struck in August 1826. Their house was miraculously spared by the debris, but the entire family and two hired men died after apparently fleeing it. The tragedy became one of the White Mountains' most famous nineteenth-century disaster stories. Secondary source: https://www.topozone.com/new-hampshire/carroll-nh/locale/willey-house/
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: nhstateparks.org/find-parks-trails/crawford-notch-state-park