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	Virginia City, Nevada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Virginia City is a city located in Storey County, Nevada.
		Virginia City is not only one of the oldest established cities in Nevada, it is also one of the oldest west of the Mississippi River.
		Virginia City is also known for being the nearest town to the Cartwright Ranch on the Western television drama Bonanza.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Virginia_City,_Nevada (342 words)

	Tonopah, Nevada - Virginia City and Reno
		All told, Virginia City's mines contributed more than $400,000,000 in silver and gold to the U.S. economy, and although the local mines were in decline by the 20th century, the town has changed little from its boom days.
		Virginia City's history is depicted in its many museums, including the restored Mackay Mansion, built as the headquarters for John Mackay, who made a fortune from the Comstock Lode.
		As in its heyday, Virginia City's C-Street is lined with saloons, including the Delta, opened in 1863; the Bucket of Blood, featuring a collection of antique hanging lamps; the Union Brewery, where beer is made on-site; and the Mark Twain, named for the famous author who was once a reporter for the local newspaper.
	www.tonopah.com /VirginiaCity-Reno.htm (1245 words)

	A Day in Historic Virginia City, Nevada
		Virginia City lies on the northern slope of Mt. Davidson in Storey County Nevada (to the southeast of Reno).
		It was founded as a city around 1860, prior to the U.S. Civil War, when the prospectors who were flooding west in the California Gold Rush discovered gold ore in the hills around what is now Virginia City.
		Its size made Virginia City the largest city west of the Mississippi River in the North America at the time, a title it retained until the 1900 Census at which point the city relinquished the honor to a California coastal town the miners of Virginia City had helped to found some decades earlier...
	www.wam.umd.edu /~schalow/vc-part1-sm.html (813 words)

	Virginia City, Nevada
		Virginia City quickly grew to become the richest mining boomtown in the world.
		At its peak, Virginia City was a rollicking town of nearly 30,000 residents.
		Virginia City Convention and Tourism Authority is improving visitor facilities along 'C' Street, including new kiosks with town maps and information on historic sites within the district.
	www.greatstreets.org /MainStreets/MainVirginiaCity.html (766 words)

	Virginia City, Nevada - Description & History, from The Complete Nevada Traveler by David W. Toll
		Virginia City's C Street dates from the 1870s and before, and the wooden sidewalks have rumbled with the footsteps of passersby for almost 150 years now.
		The city shriveled, but it never quite died, and in 1950 Lucius Beebe was one of a handful of literary folk from the East who rediscovered the ancient metropolis.
		Still, Virginia City does hold a special place in the heart and the history of the American West, and despite the increasing distance from the glory years, Virginia City's antic history can come to life in your imagination when you visit.
	www.nevadaweb.com /cnt/r-t/vc (1790 words)

	History of Virginia City, Nevada and the Comstock Lode (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Virginia City holds a special place in the history of the West and America.
		The resulting boom turned Virginny Town into Virginia City, the most important settlement between Denver and San Francisco; and the grubby prospectors into instant millionaires who built mansions, imported furniture and fashions from Europe and the Orient, and financed the Civil War.
		With the gold and silver came the building of the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, which ran from Reno to Carson City to Virginia City and later to Minden.
	www.vcnevada.com /history.htm (553 words)

	Territorial Enterprise - Virginia City, Nevada
		By the time the Virginia City mines were played out, a full two decades had passed since the war's end and 10 years since dissolution was supposed to have taken place.
		Virginia City, NV Dec. 22, 1998 -- All of the recent fanfare about Lassen County petitioning to secede from California and to join Nevada may soon be a dead issue if some legislators and Nevada politicians have anything to say about it.
		Eastern Nevada voters will likely vote to join Utah in any case due to their close proximity to Salt Lake and its heavy Mormon population, but the southern and western sections of the state are not expected to opt for union with Arizona and California without a fierce legal and electoral struggle.
	www.territorial-enterprise.com /news2.htm (2195 words)

	Virginia City, Nevada City, and Bannack : Introduction \| Frommers.com
		Virginia City and nearby Nevada City have both a boisterous and colorful past and present.
		They are old towns, but Virginia City never turned into a ghost town; in fact, it's one of the oldest continuously occupied towns in the West.
		The restoration of Virginia City began in 1946 when Charles and Sue Bovey began the painstaking task of preserving and restoring many of the structures you see in town today.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/virginiacitynevadacityandbannack/2155010001.html (578 words)

	Virginia City, Nevada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1856, the brothers were living in Silver City, three miles south of present-day Virginia City.
		In 1860, Jernegan and James moved the Territorial Enterprise newspaper to Virginia City from nearby Genoa.
		In 1870, the most disastrous of many mine fires at Virginia City, killed about 45 men who were unable to escape the mine.
	members.aol.com /Gibson0817/vc.htm (1295 words)

	Virginia City: History and Description
		Virginia City was once "The Richest Place on Earth." In the 1860s and '70s thousands of miners dug the gold and silver ore with hand tools, and stamp mills thundered around the clock.
		Nevertheless, Virginia City still holds a special place in the heart and the history of the American West, and something of its antic history comes alive for you when you visit.
		One of Virginia city's greatest attractions is the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, once the richest (and crookedest) short line in the world, now in the process of restoration and already operating a regular passenger schedule between Virginia City and Gold Hill from Memorial Day through October.
	www.nevadaweb.com /cnt/r-t/vc/main.html (2311 words)

	Virginia City Official Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Virginia City is a living town of 150 year round residents who host the West's best preserved gold mining town from the 1860s.
		Nevada City, just 1.5 miles away has 14 historic buildings original to the site plus a collection of more than 100 other historic buildings saved from locations all over Montana.
		Visit the Nevada City Music Hall with a collection of historic music machines, gaviolis and player pianos--the largest music machine collection in the world open to the public.
	www.virginiacitymt.com (183 words)

	Nevada State Historic Preservation Office - Virginia City's African American Community
		Virginia City’s African American Community: Discovering Traces of an Ethnic Past in the Wild West was written by Ronald M. James and Kelly J. Dixon.
		Today, the Virginia City National Landmark is one of the nation’s largest historic districts, soaring to more recent prominence in the 1960s as the subject of NBC’s Bonanza series.
		The Center encourages the preservation of archaeological resources of the Virginia City National Landmark District, in order to promote the identification, excavation, analysis, and interpretation of sites within the district, and to return information and insight to the community through exhibits and public education.
	dmla.clan.lib.nv.us /docs/shpo/projects.htm (3131 words)

	Virginia City Official State Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Virginia City Institute is the training division of the Montana Heritage Preservation and Development Commission (MHC).
		Preservation courses are taught by the Virginia City Historic Preservation Team, whose members are specialists in the many varied aspects of historic preservation.
		Virginia and Nevada Cities have over 250 historic buildings, showcasing a huge variety of construction techniques used by a dozen different nationalities and representing the Gold Rush, Mining, and Early Homestead eras.
	www.virginiacityinstitute.com (386 words)

	Virginia City, Nevada: June, 2002
		Virginia City is located 23 miles south of Reno, Nevada, at an elevation of approximately 6,200 ft. It is sited on the east side of Mount Davidson (7,864 ft.) in the Virginia range of mountains.
		By 1860, Virginia City was a booming mining community, and over the years, large quantities of silver ore, worth approximately $400,000,000 in 19th Century dollars, were laboriously extracted from the mines.
		It is 3.8-miles in length, and was primarily built to drain the millions of gallons of hot water from the Virginia City mines that infiltrated from underground water sources.
	mishalov.net /virginiacity602/virginiacity602.html (945 words)

	Virginia City, Nevada
		Virginia City lies immediately above Comstock Lode, rich in gold and silver.
		Virginia City is now purely a tourist town which has retained its historical character surprisingly well.
		Ten times as many people lived here between 1860 and 1880; at that time Virginia City was in fact the most important town between San Francisco and Denver.
	www.planetware.com /nevada/virginia-city-us-nv-vc.htm (215 words)

	Territorial Enterprise - Virginia City, Nevada
		When the fire was finally subdued, it had swept away all of that part of the city Iying between Taylor street on the south, Carson street on the north, Stewart street on the west and the Chinese quarter on the east.
		Viewed from the elevated ground to the westward the city was a sea of flames, from which vast columns of inky smoke rose hundreds of feet into the air.
		At the Consolidated Virginia and Ophir mines immense quantities of timbers, wood and lumber were destroyed, burning fiercely and for a great length of time.
	www.territorial-enterprise.com /ruins.htm (1920 words)

	Virginia City Nevada & Wild Mustang Horses
		Piper's Opera House is located in Virginia City, Nevada, a big boom and medium bust town outside of Reno, Nevada.
		During the latter half of the nineteenth century, Virginia City was the Silicon Valley of the West - the center of technology based money, where every person had a shot at making a million.
		The Comstock Lode: Virginia City became the first industrial city in the West when, in 1857, Ethan Allen Grosh and Hosea Ballou Grosh discovered gold in Six-Mile Canyon.
	www.5mileflats.com (534 words)

	Historic Virginia City Nevada, buy and sell real estate (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Virginia city is a historic mining town where about 1500 people make their home in Storey County, Nevada.
		Virginia City is the site of the Comstock Lode days which was once a booming gold and silver mining town in the days of the Civil War.
		Virginia City is at an elevation of 6220 feet above mean sea level and thus experiences harsher winters than the Reno area which sits at only 4500 feet elevation.
	www.reno-nevada-realestate.com.cob-web.org:8888 /virginia-city-realestate.html (253 words)

	Virginia City, Nevada
		Virginia City, Nevada is the largest federally designated Historical District in America.
		Tours are available throughout the city… from mansions to mines (as of this writing the old Opera House was about to be reopened).
		There are several museums and the train ride aboard the old Virginia City and Truckee railroad is a must for the kids.
	www.familymatters.tv /level_4/excursions/virginiacity.htm (403 words)

	Virginia City, Nevada
		In August, the Mojave Muleskinners rendezvous in Virginia City, Nevada.
		In the time between the early 1860´s through the 1890´s, Virginia City was one of the largest and most sophisticated cities in the west.
		the Virginia and Truckee Railroad and the townsfolk of Virginia City
	www.mojavemuleskinners.com /virginiacity.html (220 words)

	MDOC Virginia City Official Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The entire contents of the families' three log cabins are exhibited in similar Nevada City cabins.
		Nevada City was used as a training site for the three families as they transitioned back in time, learning the basics: animal husbandry, wood stove cooking, gardening, carpentry, and the other skills needed to survive 118 years ago.
		Nevada City also provided the models for the three log cabins used by the families in their frontier location.
	www.frontierhousemuseum.com (592 words)

	Virginia City, Montana - Home Page
		The Grand Ball of 1864 Virginia City, MT had a strategic role in the Civil War.
		Virginia City, Montana is an engaging educational experience for children, filled with fun and new things as well as the old.
		The Virginia City Preservation Alliance is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of the historic aspects of Virginia City, Montana, and invites you to help us restore, preserve and interpret Virginia City.
	www.virginiacity.com (921 words)

	Virginia City, Montana : Chamber of Commerce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Sluices soon lined the gulch and various "cities" blossomed forth as trading and amusement centers for free handed miners.
		Virginia City, the best known of these and the sole survivor, became the Capitol of the Territory.
		The very much alive ghost town, Virginia City, Montana, is frozen in time.
	www.virginiacitychamber.com (206 words)

	Vibrant Virginia City
		Virginia City wakes up slowly, as I discover on a stroll with Nevada state historic preservation officer Ronald M. James.
		James explains that Virginia City's gold and silver mines made it one of the most influential cities in the West (see "Silver and sin in old Virginny," below) from the 1860s to 1880s.
		The opera house, which recalls a time when Virginia City was a center of culture in the West, has reopened for concerts, plays, and musicals.
	www.sunset.com /sunset/Premium/Travel/2000/05-May/VirginiaCity0500/VirginiaCity0500.html (1549 words)

	Virginia City/ Nevada City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Located only a mile apart on MT 287 in southwest Montana, Virginia City and Nevada City are 85 miles—about an hour and a half—north of Yellowstone.
		At the Nevada City end of the line, visit the Alder Gulch Short Line Steam Railroad Museum with its collection of equipment and stock from railroading's gold rush era.
		Virginia City and Nevada City are open for tours between late May and mid-Sept. For overnight stops, groups are advised to arrive between 2:00 and 4:00pm and can be on their way by 8:00am the following day.
	montanagroups.com /p23.htm (441 words)

	Virginia City, Nevada - DesertUSA
		Virginia City used to be the richest gold producing area in the United States.
		Nevada had been a territory since 1861 but became a state in 1864.
		Ralston built the Virginia and Truckee Railroad to haul ore from the Virginia City mines to the ore mills along the Carson River in the valley below and to the east of Carson City.
	www.desertusa.com /Cities/nv/nv_virginiacity.html (1504 words)

	Virginia City, Nevada
		When Ben and the boys bellied up to the bar, they did it at the Bucket of Blood in Virginia City, and their ranch was located in Incline Village, Nevada, and until just this summer it was open to the public as an amusement park.
		The Cartwright's visited Virginia City to go to "town," but Virginia City was really a mining center, where the extremely rich vein of silver known as the "Comstock Lode" was discovered and mined in the 1870s.
		Virginia City has something for the entire family, and you can spend a few hours or a few days exploring the area, and learning more about the Comstock Lode silver mines that made Nevada great.
	www.preferredconsumer.com /travel/articles/virginia_city.html (557 words)

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