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Blackhawk is an unincorporated planned community and census-designated place [3] located in Contra Costa County, California, United States, east of Danville and Oakland. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 9,354. [ 4 ]
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The original part of the company, Smith Bits, grew out of a blacksmith shop in the small town of Whittier, California, in 1902. It was there, at the age of 20, that Herman C. Smith became the right man in the right place at the right time: oil was discovered nearby and the local drilling operators needed their fishtail bits sharpened.
The Blackhawk was closed in 1963. After housing a number of clubs including the "Top Drawer," the building was finally demolished, and is now a parking lot. Still standing adjacent to the site, however, is the "222 Club" (also known as "The Three Deuces"), a former green room to the Blackhawk where equipment was stored for live recordings.
Colorado became a state on August 1, 1876, [15] and the City of Black Hawk was incorporated on June 12, 1886. [5] The spelling of the Black Hawk post office was changed to Blackhawk on January 30, 1895, but was then changed back to Black Hawk on July 1, 1950. Black Hawk is currently the least populous city in the State of Colorado. [16]
Hawkvision was a short-lived subscription TV service founded by Wirtz Corporation and Chicago Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz. [1] The service broadcast Chicago Blackhawks games. It operated in conjunction with Chicago's local version of SportsChannel , and access cost $ 29.95 per month.
By the time the Territory of Colorado was formed on February 28, 1861, Central City was already the largest city in the entire territory, though Denver was made the state capital. The Central City/Black Hawk area was a basically continuous arc of mining camps and urban development, with a population of more than 3,000 at its height in 1870.