Naming the West : Black Diamond

Black Diamond - Student Stories 3

Black Diamond

In the foothills of the Rocky Mountains the grass sways back and forth in the Chinook winds.  In 1899 a thing was walking on my land with two legs and two arms.  What’s that?  I see a pouch on this thing’s hip carrying tools.  He uses a tool to puncture a hole in me and finds black rocks.  More people come for the diamond shaped rocks called coal.  A post office was needed and it needed a name.  The Arnold brothers owned a store and suggested Arnoldville.  The man who discovered the coal proposed the name Black Diamond.  The names were put into a hat and Black Diamond was born.