The Black Diamond Mine
On August 16 engineering
crews were told that a sinkhole was discovered in a ditch between
Turner Valley and Black Diamond. The crew stabilized the 90 foot deep hole
and pieces of a 101 year old slumber came to the surface of the water in
the sinkhole.
The crew was shocked.
What the crew found was a collection of about 23 old, raggedy, hand sewn
wooden timbers, which was part of an old coal mine, buried for more than
a century beneath the earth. But this was no regular coal mine…
It was the coal mine
which the town of Black Diamond got its name!!
The coal mine opened in 1899 and
closed in 1925!
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