Ghost town virginia city nevada10/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Soon, another miner named Henry Comstock, stumbled upon their find and claimed it was on his property. It got its start when two miners by the names of Pat McLaughlin and Peter O’Reilly discovered gold at the head of Six-Mile Canyon in 1859. Founded in 1859, the settlement was the focus of a gold rush and within a year, it became the region's largest community, a status it maintained in Nevada into the 1890s. Virginia City was known as the Queen of the Comstock, the internationally famous mining district. ![]() Virginia City - Old Mining Ghost TownNevadaThis auction is for a nice chrome postcard showing the liveliest old mining ghost town in the US. Item: 313389071656 Virginia City - Old Mining Ghost Town, Nevada Postcard.
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