The day I used to be leaving Lake Tahoe the valet attendant recommended I go to Virginia Metropolis. He mentioned 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 severe climate on the best way over, but it surely didn’t matter as a result of the Atlas can deal with any highway circumstances.
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 reside and work. Miners pulled tens of millions 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. At this time, it’s the right vacationer lure!
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 faculties, and imported furnishings, fashions, and leisure from Europe and the Orient. They helped finance the Civil Battle, and went on to construct empires all over the world. Among the many most interesting examples is San Francisco, a metropolis constructed with Comstock silver.
The 4 mines: Ophir, Gould, Curry and Consolidated Virginia mines made up the “Large Bonanza” of 1873. This bonanza introduced out no less than $300 million in mineral deposits. At this time 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 lifeless 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 facility 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, realized, and died. I personally skilled no ghosts whereas I used to be there.
Enjoyable reality: Silver from Virginia Metropolis could have helped save the Union. Virginia Metropolis helped finance the U.S. authorities through the Civil Battle.
Supposedly the spirits of the individuals of the “Queen of the Comstock” nonetheless hang-out the locations the place they lived, labored, performed, realized, and died. I personally skilled no ghosts whereas I used to be there. 
