Somersville, California

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Somersville is an unincorporated ghost town in eastern Contra Costa County, California, USA.^[1]

Somersville was founded in the 1850s^[1] by gold miners. The town is no longer populated and is within the boundaries of the East Bay Regional Park District's Black Diamond Mines Regional Park.^[1] Somersville Road was named after the town; it is a major north-south arterial trunk road in the closest existing neighbor: Antioch. Somersville's ruins contain a fairly extensive amount of graves in its cemetery^[1], many of whom are dead miners who died in accidents in the coal mines.^[1] The Somersville mines are now sealed to prevent entry due to frequent incidents of people becoming lost inside them during the mid 20th century.^[1]

[edit] See also

Nortonville, a similar nearby ghost town

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f SOMERSVILLE, GhostTowns.com, retrieved September 12, 2007

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