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COALTOWN
What was considered old Coaltown was more of a locality than a village, embracing a territory contingent to numerous
coal mines in the southeast portion of the present township of Hampton and a small part of South Moline Township,
and a very active locality it was in the early days. At one point where Samuel Bowles, who came to this county
in 1835, discovered the first coal bed in this vicinity, and at one time built a church there. The vicinity was
called Bowlesburg; another vicinity Tinkerville. The Silvis mines are still running, and a branch of the D.R. I.
& N.W. Railway run there.
Source: "Historic Rock Island County : history of the settlement
of Rock Island County from the earliest known period to the present time : embracing references of importance,
and including a biography of Rock Island County's well-known citizens."
Rock Island, Ill.: Kramer & Co., 1908
©2006 K. Torp
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