5-681: Virginia City Historic District may refer to: Virginia City Historic District (Virginia City, Montana) , listed on the NRHP in Montana Virginia City Historic District (Virginia City, Nevada) , listed on the NRHP in Nevada Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Virginia City Historic District . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
10-466: Is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing Virginia City , Montana , United States . Designated in 1966, the district includes over two hundred nineteenth-century buildings, representing the site of a major gold strike and the capital of Montana for ten years. Virginia City was founded in the early 1860s, in the wake of a major gold find in Alder Gulch, which ascends into the mountains to
15-468: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Virginia_City_Historic_District&oldid=282037117 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Virginia City Historic District (Virginia City, Montana) The Virginia City Historic District
20-405: The other communities. In the 1940s Charles and Sue Bovey began to buy up abandoned buildings and restoring them, in effect creating an open-air museum.[3] The landmark district encompasses an area of about 20,000 acres (81 km2), including the entire city limits of Virginia City and a significant portion of Alder Gulch where mining operations took place. Many of the city's buildings were built before
25-527: The south. It grew rapidly with the influx of gold seekers, and was by 1865 so large and prosperous that it was made the capital of the Montana Territory. Alder Gulch was lined with mining communities of all sizes, with an estimated total population of 10,000 in 1865. Of these, Virginia City was the largest, and is the only major community to survive later declines in the mining economy. By the 1930s large mining operations had either demolished or buried most of
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