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October 15, 1966. Designated NHLD. July 4, 1961 [2] The Virginia City Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing Virginia City, Montana, United States. Designated in 1966, the district includes over two hundred nineteenth-century buildings, representing the site of a major gold strike and the capital of Montana for ...
The "Main Street Project" [1] was begun in 1977 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation with a pilot involving 3 towns: Galesburg, Illinois; Madison, Indiana; and Hot Springs, South Dakota. [2] Based on the success in those three towns, a pilot project followed in six states: Texas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and ...
30-77125. GNIS feature ID. 0778036. Virginia City is a town in and the county seat of Madison County, Montana, United States. [ 3] In 1961 the town and the surrounding area were designated a National Historic Landmark District, the Virginia City Historic District. [ 4] The population was 219 at the 2020 census.
Hydraulic gold mining in Alder Gulch, 1871. Photo by William Henry Jackson. Placer mining in Alder Gulch, 1872. Alder Gulch (alternatively called Alder Creek) is a place in the Ruby River valley, in the U.S. state of Montana, where gold was discovered on May 26, 1863, by William Fairweather and a group of men including Barney Hughes, Thomas Cover, Henry Rodgers, Henry Edgar and Bill Sweeney ...
470 [ 1] Website. www .uschamber .com. The United States Chamber of Commerce ( USCC) is a business association advocacy group. It is the largest lobbying group in the United States. The group was founded in April 1912 out of local chambers of commerce at the urging of President William Howard Taft and his Secretary of Commerce and Labor Charles ...
Camp Steiner played a formative role in the lives of generations of Boy Scouts. You never forget your first big trip away from home. For Ben Lusty and generations of Boy Scouts, it was at Camp ...
A “Fairweather Lodge” is a home that offers support for adults with mental illness. The Lodge setting is shared, independent housing and can be offered either short-term or long-term, depending on the needs and desires of the individual. Lodge members are active, productive men and women who share the responsibilities of household ...
The following people were either born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the town of Virginia City, Montana. Pages in category "People from Virginia City, Montana" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.