virginia city

     

Once a famous mining community, this Western Nevada town is now chiefly an attraction for tourists

Trivia about virginia city

  • This Nevada mining city's camel races began as a fictitious newspaper story, then became an annual event
  • Saloons in this city include the Bucket of Blood & the Ponderosa
  • This Nevada ghost town boasts the Mark Twain Museum of Memories & the Bucket of Blood Saloon
  • Mark Twain & Julia Bulette both worked the streets of this Nevada town; Mark was a journalist
  • In 1859 this Nevada town sprung up virtually overnight with the discovery of the Comstock Lode