Virginia City, Nevada
Storey County · Population 787 · Card no. 10724
The Comstock Lode town, which produced the silver that built San Francisco and helped finance the Union in the Civil War.
- Mark Twain took his pen name while writing for the Territorial Enterprise here.
- The town had some 25,000 people in the 1870s.
- The whole district is a National Historic Landmark.
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