VISIT A LIVING HISTORY

Visit a Living History

Walk boardwalks that have been here over a 140 years.
Stroll through old buildings, mansion, saloons, and museum of this once the greatest and largest city in Nevada.
Virginia City was the first industrial city in the west, when gold was discovered in 1859.
Upon the news of the first gold strike prospectors rushed to the area.
One of the biggest problems in the new tent city was the sticky, blue-gray mud that clung to picks and shovels.
When it was finally assayed the gray mud was silver ore worth over $2000 a ton in 1859.
The rich deposits of gold and high quality silver ore turned Virginia tent city to Virginia City. It was the most important settlement between Denver and San Francisco.
Later Nevada became a state in 1864 by President Abe Lincoln.
The biggest gold mine called Comstock Lode yielded more than 400 million in gold and silver, and remains the richest known US silver deposit.
It was all over by 1878 the mines eventually played out and the mining ceased.
Virginia City, Nevada once called the richest place on earth offers glimpses of its splendid past on every corner.
Tour the liveliest ghost town in the west. Ride a train or trolley with a narrated history lesson.
Just 23 miles form Reno,Nevada