SHREVEPORT, La. (KTAL/KMSS) – For generations, rural residents in Northwest Louisiana have claimed that during the New Madrid earthquakes of 1811 and 1812 the Red River flowed backward, flooded ...

A series of earthquakes that occurred near New Madrid, Missouri, U.S. between December 1811 and February 1812, it included three large earthquakes and several other tremors through the months.