Worthington, Ontario

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Worthington is the name of both a community and a ghost town in the Canadian province of Ontario, which lie within the boundaries of the city of Greater Sudbury.

Incorporated as a mining community in 1892, the original Worthington existed until October 4, 1927. At 5:50 a.m. that morning, a ground fault gave way, causing the mine and part of the town to collapse into a large chasm. Nobody died in the incident, however, as a mine foreman evacuated the town the previous evening after noticing abnormal rock shifts in the mine.

With the mine no longer operational, the residents of Worthington moved to other mining communities in the area. In the 1960s, the name Worthington was applied to a newer townsite nearby. The original townsite is now under water.

Both the original and new Worthington townsites became part of the town of Walden in 1973, and were in turn amalgamated into Greater Sudbury in 2001.