Novinger’s history is
mostly unwritten
The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Novinger. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗Key events in Novinger history include the arrival of the Quincy, Missouri & Pacific railroad and filing of the town plat by founder John C. Novinger in 1878, the establishment of a U.S. Post Office the next year, and the first shaft coal mine in 1883. A turn-of-the-century coal mining boom saw Welsh, Germans, Scots-Irish, Italians, natives of the Balkan countries and many others and their families immigrate from all over the world. It was this boom that finally saw Novinger incorporated as a city in 1901 as the population swelled into the thousands. However, the Great Depression, a post-World War II switch to mostly natural gas and electric heat in American homes, and heavy industry's lessening coal use doomed the area coal fields. The railroads had pulled out by 1950, and the last mine, Billy Creek Coal Mine southwest of Novinger, closed in January 1966. At the time of its closing Bil…
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Start Novinger’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Novinger’s history is told.
1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewNovinger Coal Museum, 1997: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people close to Novinger
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Novinger, decade by decade
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Nothing in Novinger is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Novinger has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Cabins Historic District in Novinger, 2.1 miles away.
Novinger and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Rombauer Coal Mine and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (7). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.