The day I used to be leaving Lake Tahoe the valet attendant instructed I go to Virginia Metropolis. He stated it was a ghost city. I had by no means been to a ghost city, so after all I drove straight there. I did hit some critical climate on the way in which over, nevertheless it didn’t matter as a result of the Atlas can deal with any highway situations.
About Virginia Metropolis
At its peak, Virginia Metropolis was a thriving, vibrant city with 25,000 individuals. Silver and gold have been buried deep beneath her streets, and women and men traveled from all over the world to dwell and work. Miners pulled thousands and thousands of {dollars} from shafts and tunnels 3,000 ft beneath the town. The spirits of these Comstock “originals” nonetheless inhabit the locations the place they as soon as labored, lived, worshiped, have been educated, and died. As we speak, it’s the proper vacationer entice!
The Nineteenth-century mining bonanza turned Virginia Metropolis into crucial industrial metropolis between Denver and San Francisco, and it turned destitute prospectors from all around the world into millionaires. They constructed mansions, hospitals, church buildings, opera homes, and colleges, and imported furnishings, fashions, and leisure from Europe and the Orient. They helped finance the Civil Conflict, and went on to construct empires all over the world. Among the many best examples is San Francisco, a metropolis constructed with Comstock silver.
The 4 mines: Ophir, Gould, Curry and Consolidated Virginia mines made up the “Massive Bonanza” of 1873. This bonanza introduced out at the very least $300 million in mineral deposits. As we speak you’ll be able to tour round and expertise what it was like for the 25,000 residents to stroll the city again within the day.
Mark Twain labored right here! In 1868, Mark Twain reminisced and wrote about his journalism profession in Nevada with the Virginia Metropolis Territorial Enterprise:
“To discover a petrified man, or break a stranger’s leg, or cave an imaginary mine, or uncover some useless Indians in a Gold Hill tunnel, or bloodbath a household at Dutch Nick’s, have been feats and calamities that we by no means hesitated about devising when the general public wanted issues of thrilling curiosity for breakfast. The seemingly tranquil ENTERPRISE workplace was a ghastly manufacturing unit of slaughter, mutilation and basic destruction in these days.”
—Mark Twain’s Letters from Washington, Quantity IX, Territorial Enterprise, March 7, 1868
Supposedly the spirits of the individuals of the “Queen of the Comstock” nonetheless hang-out the locations the place they lived, labored, performed, discovered, and died. I personally skilled no ghosts whereas I used to be there.
Enjoyable truth: Silver from Virginia Metropolis could have helped save the Union. Virginia Metropolis helped finance the U.S. authorities through the Civil Conflict.
Supposedly the spirits of the individuals of the “Queen of the Comstock” nonetheless hang-out the locations the place they lived, labored, performed, discovered, and died. I personally skilled no ghosts whereas I used to be there. 
