VirtualGlobetrotting: United States: Antioch

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Phillip Garrido's house
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Kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard

Phillip and Nancy Garrido's House
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A convicted sex offender and his wife arrested in the 1991 kidnapping of an 11-year-old girl who recently went to police allegedly kept her as a sex slave, FOX 40 News reported.
Authorities told the station that the victim, Jaycee Lee Dugard, bore several children for sex offender Phillip Garrido and said Garrido and his wife Nancy kept Dugard as a sex slave in a shed or other unit in the backyard.
Phillip Garrido, 58, and Nancy Garrido, 54, are in custody in Dugard's abduction 18 years ago from a school bus stop.

J. D. Souther's House
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The country rock singer-songwriter and actor, as well as a multi instrumentalist, lives here. He is well known both as a performer and as a writer and co-writer of hit songs for other artists, most famously "Eagles" and Linda Ronstadt. He moved here from the Hollywood Hills in 2002.

Phillip Garrido driving his van
neotrix (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: neotrix.
via streetviewfun.com
Phillip Garrido is following the Google Street View car from his house.
When you go back up the street to his house you can see how he drove out of his drive.
Ok you can not see him clearly, but in BEV view can see a van in the backyard of his house.

Bo Bice's House
tlp333 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: tlp333.
The singer and musician who placed 2nd to Carrie Underwood in the 4th season of "American Idol" lives here. He purchased the 5-bed, 3-bath, 2,860 sq ft home in July of 2005 for $378K.

Remains of the Somersville ghost town
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By: kjfitz.
The original site of the town is just south near the Somersville cemetary. These buildings were relocated here and are currently owned by the Antioch School System.

Casey Atwood's House (former)
tlp333 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: tlp333.
The former NASCAR driver lived here.

Blarney Island
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By: milwhcky.
Unique night club in the middle of Grass Lake.

D. J. Fontana's House
The musician, best known as the drummer for Elvis Presley for 14 years, lives here. He played on over 460 RCA cuts with Elvis.

Black Diamond Mine - Greathouse portal and visitor center
kjfitz (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: kjfitz.
This portal was the original opening into the sand mine. (Closed to public until 2009.)
In the 1920s underground mining for sand began near the deserted Nortonville and Somersville townsites. The Somersville mine supplied sand used in glass making by the Hazel-Atlas Glass Company in Oakland, while the Nortonville mine supplied the Columbia Steel Works with foundry (casting) sand. Competition from Belgian glass and the closing of the steel foundry ended the sand mining by 1949. Altogether, more than 1.8 million tons of sand had been mined.

Black Diamond Mine - Prospect Tunnel
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This tunnel was driven in the 1860s by miners in search of commercial-quality coal. Two hundred feet of the 400-foot tunnel are open for exploration.

D'Marco Farr's House
The former professional football player lives here.

Black Diamond Mine - Hazel Atlas portal
This mine supplied sand needed for glass making in the 1920s through the 1940s. This shaft is open for public tours by local park rangers.

Black Diamond Mine - Eureka Slope
This inclined shaft was the entrance to the Eureka Coal Mine. Between 1860 and 1895, more than 150,000 tons of coal were hoisted to the surface. The slope is 290 feet long and descends at a pitch of 32 degrees.

Antioch Speedway
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By: milwhcky.
1/4 mile clay oval featuring sprint cars, modifieds, and stock cars. Opened in 1961.

Cemetary for the Somersville ghost town
Somersville is an unincorporated ghost town in eastern Contra Costa County, California, USA.
Somersville was founded in the 1850s by gold miners. The town is no longer populated and is within the boundaries of the East Bay Regional Park District's Black Diamond Mines Regional Park. Somersville Road was named after the town; it is a major north-south arterial trunk road in the closest existing neighbor: Antioch. Somersville's ruins contain a fairly extensive amount of graves in its cemetery, many of whom are dead miners who died in accidents in the coal mines. The Somersville mines are now sealed to prevent entry due to frequent incidents of people becoming lost inside them during the mid 20th century.

Black Diamond Mine - Independent Shaft
This depression in the trees marks the location of a 710 foot deep sealed shaft, the most northerly mine entry in the Mt Diablo Coal Field.
The Independant Shaft was sunk in 1865. By 1867 the company had failed and the shaft became inactive except as a means of pumping water from the nearby Eureka Mine. It was opened again in a 1900 by the Pittsburg Mining Company but closed after less than a year. It is now completely sealed and all that remains are a small array of vertical iron spikes on which teh hoist works were mounted.

Antioch Water Tower
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Extreme Makeover: Home Edition: Lighthouse School/Sweatt Family
Dania (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Dania.
Season 8, episode 8. Aired 11/14/2010.

Antioch Bridge
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Riverview Union High School
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This was the first high school constructed in Contra Costa County. Supported by the Womans Club of Antioch, the first joint communities bond was passed in 1908 for $20,000 by Antioch, Pittsburg, Somersville, Nortonville and Live Oak. Charles Appleton Hooper donated unincorporated land for the school. The election of April 1, 1910, approved the site and elected all new Antioch trustees. Construction began in September 1910 and the school was opened November 4, 1911. Antioch and Pittsburg dissolved the Union District in 1925. The last Antioch class graduated in 1931. The Antioch Historical Society registered this site with the National Register of Historical Places on October 14, 1998.

Kyle Rittenhouse's apartment
Matheus_ (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: Matheus_.
On August 25, 2020, during the unrest in Kenosha, Wisconsin after the police shooting of Jacob Blake, Kyle Rittenhouse, a 17-year-old from Antioch, Illinois, fatally shot two men and wounded another during three confrontations. Rittenhouse had armed himself with an AR-15 style rifle and said he was in Kenosha to protect a car dealership from being vandalized and to provide medical aid.
Rittenhouse was charged with two counts of homicide, one count of attempted homicide, two counts of reckless endangerment, one count of unlawful possession of a firearm, and one count of curfew violation. Judge Bruce Schroeder dismissed the unlawful possession charge and the curfew violation during the trial, which began in Kenosha on November 1, 2021. It ended on November 19 when the jury found him not guilty on all the remaining charges.
Rittenhouse lives here with his mother and two sisters.

The San Diego
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The ferryboat San Diego was built in 1931 for the San Diego and Coronado Ferry Company. Retired from service in 1969, she wandered about Northern California for many years as a houseboat. Plans to rehabiliate her as a restaurant or museum never quite came to fruitition. Some time in 2008 she was beached and abandoned here on the shore of Decker Island, near Antioch.

American flag
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Antioch Paintball
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Movie Theater Shooting (5 AUG 2015)
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Just two weeks after the movie theater shooting in Lafayette, LA which left two dead, another gunman opened fire during the 1:15 pm showing of "Mad Max: Fury Road".

Nashville Waffle House shooting site (April 22, 2018)
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Gateway Generating Station
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Solano ferry
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Marsh Landing Plant
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Goat Rock Dam