Virginia City
Virginia City
Virgin′ia Cit′y
n.
单词 | virginia city |
释义 | Virginia CityVirginia CityVirgin′ia Cit′yn. Virginia CityVirginia 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. BibliographySee R. M. James, Virginia City: Secrets of a Western Past (2012). |
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