It is clear that by 1855 the stage trail began to go through the settlement 1/2 mile south of the English River that would soon be named Hinkletown and Foote Post Office. Accounts from an early settler indicate the trail existed much earlier, in the 1840s, prior to being on a stage line.
The highest recorded wind speed for a tornado is 301mph +/-20 recorded in the Moore, Oklahoma F5 tornado of May 3, 1999. The highest wind recorded in a hurricane was about 1 â¦ 90 mph in Hurricane Camille in 1969.
1 Hurricane Gilbert--The most powerful storm ever recorded in the Atlantic with winds of 200 mph, and a central pressure of 26.28 inches of Hg, Gilbert came ashore in the Yucatan, and then proceeded into the Gulf of Mexico before hitting the Northern Mexican town of Matamoros with only 120 mph winds. Colonial Hurricane of 1635--Was a powerful New England hurricane that struck the Massachussetts Bay Colony in 1635 some fifteen years after the Mayflower struck land at Plymouth Rock. 2  This storm had reminded many of the pilgrims and settlers of past hurricanes that struck in the West Indies or Caribbean.