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13-430: Nortonville may refer to: Nortonville, California Nortonville, Kansas Nortonville, Kentucky See also [ edit ] Norton (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

26-539: A flourishing Lodge of Good Templars and Sons of Temperance. Odd Fellows and Red Men each have an organization. A Protestant and a Catholic Church shed their humanizing influence around, both being well attended. The public school is maintained nearly all the year round, by a special tax when the State funds fails; from seventy-five to one hundred scholars being the average daily attendance. There are two departments, and two lady teachers, under whose painstaking auspices

39-562: A stop at Cornwall, California (the latter two towns are now a part of the city of Pittsburg, California ). The town was home to many Welsh miners. In 1885 the Black Diamond Coal Mining Company moved all the coal miners from Nortonville to another of the Company's mines at Black Diamond , Washington Territory . The Nortonville mine was so deep that it acted as a drain for the surrounding mines, and when

52-671: Is an unincorporated ghost town in Contra Costa County, California . It was located on Kirker Creek 5.5 miles (9 km) north-northeast of Mount Diablo , at an elevation of 801 feet (244 m). Nortonville is located on Nortonville Road just outside the city of Pittsburg in Contra Costa County . The town site is now part of the Black Diamond Mines Regional Preserve . Nortonville was founded by Noah Norton in 1855. He, along with three partners named Cutler, Matheson and Sturgis, started

65-698: Is located 6 miles (10 km) north-northeast of Mount Diablo , at an elevation of 741 feet (226 m). Somersville was founded in the 1850s by gold miners. It was named after Francis Somers, who had discovered the Black Diamond Mine. Somersville was home to the Manhattan, Union, Eureka, Pittsburg and Independent mines. The town is no longer populated and is within the boundaries of the East Bay Regional Park District 's Black Diamond Mines Regional Park . Somersville Road

78-681: The Black Diamond coal mine at Nortonville in 1860. The mine was incorporated as the Black Diamond Coal Mining Company in June 1861. Nortonville was also the southern terminus of the six mile long Black Diamond Coal Mining Railroad (also known as the "Black Diamond Railroad"), built in 1868. The railroad connected Nortonville with the San Joaquin River , at Black Diamond Landing, California, with

91-519: The fundamental branches flourish." In 1979, Somersville gained fame as the site of the largest historical archaeology excavation ever done in the U.S. at the time. Over 200 students from U.C Berkeley scraped and sifted through the eastern part of the townsite, recovering thousands of artifacts. The Public Broadcasting System examined the project in a 1980 episode of the anthropological documentary series Odyssey , titled "Other People's Garbage". This Contra Costa County, California –related article

104-399: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nortonville&oldid=933021410 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Nortonville, California Nortonville

117-485: The mid 20th century. A post office operated at Somersville from 1863 to 1910. A reporter for the Antioch Ledger , May 7, 1870, described the town: "...Somersville has a four general merchandise stores, one drug store, one hotel, two large boarding houses, several minor ones, a doctor, barber, shoemaker, no tailor, four saloons, purs et simple, not counting liquors dispensed at groceries. As an offset, we have

130-451: The owners of the other mines refused to contribute to the cost of pumping out the water, the company simply shut down and moved its operations. Currently what is left behind at Nortonville is a deserted area. The brick foundation of the mine's hoisting works, remnants of the railroad bed, and an old cemetery are all that remain. The cemetery is known as the "Rose Hill Cemetery," which was named for Emma Rose, daughter of Alvinza Hayward , who

143-413: The summer of 2015 https://www.flickr.com/photos/147287664@N02/30358971202/in/album-72157675514398815/ Somersville, California 37°57′25″N 121°51′52″W  /  37.95694°N 121.86444°W  / 37.95694; -121.86444 Somersville (also, Sommerville and Summerville ) is an unincorporated ghost town in eastern Contra Costa County, California , United States. It

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156-663: Was named after the town; it is a major north–south arterial trunk road in the closest existing neighbor city, Antioch . Somersville's ruins have a fairly extensive number of graves in the Rose Hill Cemetery, many of which are those of miners who died in the coal mines. The cemetery was heavily vandalized prior to the East Bay Regional Park District taking it over in the 1970s. The Somersville mines are now sealed to prevent entry, due to frequent incidents of people becoming lost inside them during

169-440: Was president and chief stockholder of the Black Diamond Coal Mining Company. In the 1940s Mrs. Rose donated the cemetery to the county. Four other coal mining towns were established in the same mining district: Somersville , Stewartsville , West Hartley and Judsonville . A post office operated at Nortonville from 1874 to 1910, with closures in 1887 and from 1890 to 1891. Here is Rose Hill Cemetery I shot with my drone in

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