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Virginia City
Virginia City A city of western Nevada between Reno and Carson City. The Comstock Lode was discovered here in 1859.Virgin′ia Cit′y
n. a mining town in W Nevada: famous for the discovery of the rich Comstock silver lode 1859. Virginia City
Virginia City, uninc. village (1990 pop. 920), seat of Storey co., W Nev.; settled 1859. Now largely a tourist center, it was the site of the Comstock LodeComstock Lode,
richest known U.S. silver deposit, W Nevada, on Mt. Davidson in the Virginia Range. It is said to have been discovered in 1857 by Ethan Allen Grosh and Hosea Ballou Grosh, sons of a Pennsylvania minister and veterans of the California gold fields who died under
..... Click the link for more information. and a major hub for the mining of silver and gold. It had some 11,000 inhabitants in 1880. Bibliography See R. M. James, Virginia City: Secrets of a Western Past (2012). |