Noonday Camp, California

The Finley Company built the town in the 1940s support the nearby War Eagle, Noonday, and Columbia lead mines.

The Tecopa and Darwin lead mines - which worked three shifts during the war years - closed.

The remains of the mining operation can be found, collapsed timber structures, foundations, slabs, rock walls, and equipment pads.

18 to 20 foundations can be found buried in the brush, along with a small graveyard, slag from the 1870s lead smelter, and a few adobe buildings.

Prominent is the cinder block vault that held the script currency the miners could use at the company commissary.