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Virginia City, uninc. village (1990 pop. 920), seat of Storey co., W Nev.; settled 1859. Now largely a tourist center, it was the site of the Comstock Lode Comstock Lode, richest known U.S. silver deposit, W Nevada, on Mt. Davidson in the Virginia Range. It is said to have been discovered in 1857 by Ethan Allen Grosh and Hosea Ballou Grosh, sons of a Pennsylvania minister and veterans of the California gold fields who ..... Click the link for more information. and a major hub for the mining of silver and gold. It had some 11,000 inhabitants in 1880. |
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That northern Virginia city is 52 miles via I-95 from RIC, and 45 miles from Reagan Washington National. ``Despite the propaganda that it's improving, the feedback we're getting is that it is deteriorating,'' said Rick Merritt, executive director of PostalWatch, an advocate of small business mailers based in Virginia City, Va. Bial includes stories and historical tidbits from a variety of sites (such as Virginia City, Nevada; Tombstone, Arizona; and Bodie, California) and myriad points of view (entrepreneurs, wives, passers-through, and newspaper editors), creating a broad overview of the subject. |
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