Virginia City, Nevada, has been recognized for its rich ... just styled to look old — many are original, dating back to the 1870s and still operating much as they did more than 150 years ago.

Today, Virginia City is an only-in-Nevada tourist attraction ... Tour a classroom preserved to its original 1870s state. Learn about Mark Twain and his fellow “Sagebrush journalists.” ...

Growing to more than 25,000 people by the mid-1870s, the town supported ... began his writing career in Virginia City. He and his brother, Orion Clemens, arrived in Nevada Territory back in ...

The Fourth Ward School Museum proudly announces the opening of their annual changing exhibit.  This year’s exhibit focuses on the dynamic theater history of Virginia City, Nevada from 1859 […] ...

Virginia City is particularly notable because it was integrated. Black residents – numbering 44 in 1860 before Nevada became a state and about 100 in 1870, according to census records – lived ...

It soon became one of the largest cities in the West, eclipsing 15,000 by the mid-1860s and 25,000 by the 1870s ... other pieces while living in Virginia City. Nevada historians like to claim ...

Virginia City is a place I happen to find myself fairly often. Usually, I'm there for stories that relate back to Nevada's before ... saloon followed into in the 1870's, people began to flee ...

In an area of Virginia City known as the Divide, west of Highway 342, Storey County Public Works employees were preparing the foundation for the tower when they came across a rock wall that dates to ...

Six Mile Canyon, along with nearby Gold Canyon, was the site of some of the first mining efforts, and earliest settlements, in northwestern Nevada. Six Mile Canyon is directly east of Virginia City ..