Ghost Town by Joan Lowery Nixon

Author:Joan Lowery Nixon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780307527943
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2000-01-20T22:00:00+00:00

Close to the top of Mt. Davidson, Virginia City is Nevada's most famous mining town. Though the town has never been completely abandoned, it is still classified as a ghost town.

Virginia City once had a population of nearly thirty thousand people, and the nearby gold and silver mines were responsible for the establishment of many great fortunes. Quite a few prospectors, who came hoping to find rich veins of the precious metals, went from near poverty to great wealth when their claims proved valuable.

Virginia City is commercially operated. It has a visitors' bureau and a chamber of commerce information center on the site.

Much of the written history of Virginia City and of the huge Comstock Lode has been saved and is available to visitors, as are many relics of the mid-1800s. Mines can be toured, and many buildings—including some of the mansions of prospectors who once struck it rich—have been restored and are open to tourists.

At one time there were 110 saloons in the city. Now a few of them, including the Bucket of Blood Saloon, have been restored and are available for tourists to explore.

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