Virginia City, Nevada

The Founding Of Virginia City, Nevada

Hamilton Historical Records

On June 8, 1859, Virginia City, Nevada was founded after the Comstock Lode was discovered by two Irishmen Patrick McLaughlin and Peter O’Reilly . The area of Virginia City day on the largest silver deposit in the state of Nevada. During the U.S. Civil War, President Lincoln daughter to keep Nevada in the Union so the silver, from mines such as those in Virginia City, could help finance the war.

Presently, when you enter Virginia City, there is a mining artifact you see from the Comstock Lode.

Published by Hamilton Historical Records

I'm a Virginia historian and legal expert who is related to individuals who rode on the Mayflower ship, American founding father George Mason IV, three Union veterans from the U.S. Civil War, two of whom marched with General Sherman to Atlanta, two Confederate veterans, and President Theodore Roosevelt’s and Franklin Roosevelt’s family.

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