By AHW Staff
September 27, 2017
Hallville was originally named Hall after a railroader who worked to grade the Bitter Creek channel. The Hallville and nearby Black Butte Mines were both opened in 1869, the year after the Union Pacific was completed in the area. At its peak, 100 coal cars per week were loaded and brought out of the Hallville Mine. The mine was abandoned in 1870 but according to census records, six people were still living there as late as 1880 as railroad laborers.
Hallville Mine site historic landscape with UP train in the distance
