Not Your Town: Original site of New Madrid
Posted Wednesday, April 23, 2008 @ 11:38 am

It may be hard to believe, but when it was founded in 1789, the town of New Madrid seemed destined to become one of the most important cities in the Midwest.

But then politics got in the way.

And then the earthquakes came.

Now the original location of New Madrid is under the Mississippi River.

Looking from the riverfront of the modern town, the old town site is somewhere under the water toward the Kentucky shore.

The name Point Rest, found on maps of Perry County, definitely lives up to its name. It's very restful. In fact, there's absolutely nothing here except a levee and a couple gravel roads.